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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.
Chartres Cathedral. Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral is a prime example of French Gothic architecture. It was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress. Its sculptures and stained glass show the heavy influence of naturalism, giving them a more secular look that was lacking from earlier Romanesque architecture.
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.
Chartres Cathedral was constructed following the destruction by fire of the Romanesque cathedral in 1194, which left only the crypt, royal total an apse intact. It was rapidly reconstructed, and was largely finished by 1221. [24] It surpassed Notre Dame de Paris both in length (130.2 meters) and height (36 meters).
French Gothic architecture was the result of the emergence in the 12th century of a powerful French state centered in the Île-de-France.During the reign of Louis VI of France (1081–1137), Paris was the principal residence of the Kings of France, Reims the place of coronation, and the Abbey of Saint-Denis became their ceremonial burial place.
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 ...
Most of the churches built in Paris in the 16th century are in the traditional flamboyant gothic style, though some have features borrowed from the Italian Renaissance. The most important Paris church of the Renaissance is Saint-Eustache , 105 meters long, 44 meters wide and 35 meters high, which in size and grandeur, approaches that of the ...
The rebuilt Chartres Cathedral (1194) is considered the first example of a Gothic cathedral. building of Classic Gothic. [12] A series of earlier cathedrals in Chartres beginning in the fourth century, were destroyed by fire. The cathedral immediately previous to the present church burned in 1194, leaving only the crypt, towers, and the ...