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Chartres Cathedral, (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, lit., Cathedral of Our Lady of 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.
It was built on the site of the former Chartres cathedral of Romanesque architecture, which was destroyed by fire in 1194 (that former cathedral had been built on the ruins of an ancient Celtic temple, later replaced by a Roman temple). Begun in 1205, the construction of Notre-Dame de Chartres was completed 66 years later.
Many Gothic cathedrals, like Notre-Dame de Paris and Chartres, were built on the sites of Romanesque cathedrals, and often used the same foundations and crypt. In Romanesque times the crypt was used to keep sacred relics, and often had its own chapels and, as in the 11th-century crypt of the first Chartres Cathedral, a deep well. The Romanesque ...
The Chartres school placed special emphasis on the quadrivium (the mathematical arts) and on natural philosophy. [ 1 ] Chartres' greatest period was the first half of the twelfth century, [ 1 ] but it eventually could not support the city's large number of students and its masters lacked the relative autonomy developing around the city's other ...
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.
It is a far cry from the evening of 15 April 2019, when TV viewers in France and worldwide watched with horror as the cathedral’s roof and spire burst into flames and collapsed in a raging fire ...
In 1506, he was commissioned to rebuild the northern bell tower of the Chartres Cathedral [3] destroyed by lightning on 26 July 1506. In Chartres, Jehan de Beauce also built: [3] [4] The renovation of the Église Saint-Aignan de Chartres between 1513 and 1525. The construction of the pavillon of the Horloge astronomique de Chartres in 1520.
Le Moyen âge retrouvé - De saint Louis à Viollet Le Duc: Le Maître de saint Eustache de la cathédrale de Chartres / Les problèmes de la peinture gothique et le Maître de saint Chéron de la cathédrale de Chartres. Vol. 2. Preface by Jean Bony and Jean Taralon. Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 2-08-010932-4. Manhes-Deremble, Colette (1993).