The Age of the Cathedrals I

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The Age of the Cathedrals I

Chartres Cathedral, France

Chartres Cathedral, as rebuilt after the fire of 1194

OPUS MODERNUM (“modern work”)

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

Saint-Sernin, Toulouse Chartres Cathedral

Rib vault

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

Durham Cathedral, England, begun ca. 1093

Plan of the east end, 1140-1141 Abbey church of Saint-Denis, Paris, restored by Abbot Suger 1136-1144

Chartres Cathedral (fires of 1020, 1134 & 1194)

Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, begun 1163

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

Amiens Cathedral, France, begun 1220

Amiens Cathedral: Choir

Bar tracery in the clerestory windows

Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 1243-1248

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

Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière (“Our Lady of the Beautiful Window”), window in the choir of Chartres Cathedral, ca. 1170 (central section)

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

A furrier and his customer, detail of the Charlemagne window