1. The Age of the Cathedrals I

2. Chartres
Cathedral,
France

3. Chartres Cathedral,
as rebuilt after
the fire of 1194

4. OPUS MODERNUM
(“modern work”)

5. OPUS MODERNUM
(“modern work”)
OPUS FRANCIGENUM
(“French work”)

6. Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
Chartres Cathedral

7. Rib vault

8. Diagram (a) and drawings of rib vaults with semicircular (b) and pointed (c) arches over
a rectangular bay

9. Durham Cathedral, England,
begun ca. 1093

10. Plan of the east end,
Abbey church of Saint-Denis,
Paris, restored by Abbot Suger

12. Chartres Cathedral
(fires of 1020, 1134 & 1194)

17. Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, begun 1163

18. Flying buttresses of the east end, Notre Dame, Paris, 1175-1200 (remodeled after 1225)

21. Amiens Cathedral, France, begun 1220

22. Amiens Cathedral: Choir

23. Bar tracery in the clerestory windows

24. Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 1243-1248

25. Rose window and lancets,
north transept, Chartres Cathedral,
ca. 1220

26. Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière (“Our Lady of the Beautiful Window”), window in the choir of Chartres Cathedral,
ca (central section)

27. Story of Charlemagne, window in the ambulatory of Chartres Cathedral, ca. 1210-1236

28. A furrier and his customer, detail of the Charlemagne window