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Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), is a Catholic cathedral in Chartres, France, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres.
The Cathedral of Chartres is an oil painting on canvas of Chartres Cathedral by the French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, created in 1830. After being sold several times, it has been held in the Musée du Louvre , in Paris since 1906.
Jehan (Jean) Texier or Le Texier (before 1474 – 29 December 1529 in Chartres [1]), better known as Jehan (Jean) de Beauce was a 15th/16th-century French architect. He is known for his works of religious architecture, notably on the Chartres cathedral of which he reconstructed the northern spire.
The stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral are held to be one of the best-preserved and most complete set of medieval stained glass, notably celebrated for their colours, especially their cobalt blue. They cover 2600 square metres in total and consist of 172 bays illustrating biblical scenes, the lives of the saints and scenes from the ...
The oldest known list of bishops of Chartres is found in an 11th-century manuscript of Trinity Abbey, Vendôme. [1] It includes 57 names from Adventus (Saint Aventin) to Aguiertus (Agobert) who died in 1060. The most well-known list is included in the Vieille Chronique of Chartres (1389).
The stained glass windows of the cathedral were financed by guilds of merchants and craftsmen, and by wealthy noblemen, whose names appear at the bottom. It is not known how the famous and unique blue, bleu de Chartres, of the glass was created, and it has been impossible to
From these lectures he wrote a more popular history of Chartres. He hoped to repeat this approach on the cathedral of Durham, [8] Southwell Minster, and a group of key buildings in France associated with Chartres, in particular Saint-Denis-en-France [9] and Notre-Dame-du-Fort in Etampes. [10]
Jean (or Jehan) de Chelles [1] (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ də ʃɛl]; working 1258–1265) was a master mason and sculptor who was one of the architects at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. On the exterior wall of the south transept a stone plaque is signed Johanne Magistro and dated February 1257, documenting the initiation of ...