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13-1 Aerial view Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, as built after 1194
• flying buttresses made possible the replacement of heavy masonry walls with immense stained-glass windows, which transformed natural sunlight into divine light of various hues • chartres set the pattern for high gothic cathedrals in the use of four part rib vaults- springing from pointed arches and in the intro. Of a 3 story nave elevation (arcade, triforium, clerestory) • artitechtural historians consider rhe rebuilt of chartres cathedral the first great monument of high gothic arictecture • it is the first church pkanned from the beginning to have buttresses • chartres cathedral is the key of both early and high gothic architecture • the west façade still has much in common with Romanesque desgins but features statues on the door jambs • 13-14 centuries chartres cathedral set standard for most of Europe • gothic cathedral unique product of an ear of epace and widespread ecpnmonic prosperity, deep spiritua |
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13-6 Royal portal, west façade, Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, ca. 1145-1155
• the scuplptures of the royal portal proclaim the majesty and power of the Christ • the tympana depict, from left to right, christ’s ascension, the second coming, and jesus in the lap of the virgin mary • named because of the figures of kings & queens flanking its 3 doorways, as at st. denis- constitutes the most complete surviving ensemble of earl gothic sculpture |
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13-7 old testament kings and queen, chartres jamb statues, right side of the central doorway of the royal portal, Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, ca. 1145-1155
• the biblical kings and queens of the royal portal are the royal ancestors of Christ • these early gothic jamb figures display the first signs of a new naturalism in European sculpture • they are the royal ancestors of Christ and both figuratively and literally, support the new testament figures above the doorways • they wear 12-th century clothes, and medieval observers have have regarded them as images of queens & kings of france • stand upright with elbos held close agiainst their hips • the linear folds their garments-inherited from Romanesque style- eloganated proportions • gothic figures attached to columns, originally vivid colors, |
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13-14 Interior of Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, begun 1194
• chartres cathedral est. the high gothic model also in its tripartite elevation consisting of nave arcade, triforium, and clerestory with stained glass windows as tall as the main arcade • visual effect of these changes was to unify the interior, because the nave now consisted of a sequence of identical units • the level crowns of the successive nave vaults, which pointed arches made possible, enhanced this effect |
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13-17 Rose window and lancets, Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, ca. 1220. Stained glass, rose window 43’ in diameter
• immense stained-glass rose and lancet windows, held in place by an intricate armature of bar tracery, fill almost the entire façade wall of the high gothic transept of Chartres cathedral • chartres 13th century gothic windows are more spectualr that belle verriere because of the introduction of flying buttresses made it possible for builders to plan from the outset on filling entire walls with stained glass • immense rose window & tall lancents gift from the queen blanche of castile, around 1220 |
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13-18 Saint Theodore, jamb statue, left portal, porch of the martyrs, south transept, Chartres cathedral, chartres, france, ca. 1230
• although the statue of Theodore is still attached to a column, the setting no longer determines the pose • the high gothic sculptor portrayed the saint in a contrapposto stance, as in classical sanctuary • the martyred warrior on the left jamb of the left portal ( the porch of the martyrs) • reveals great change in gothic sculpture had undergone since the royal portal statues of the mid 12-century • high gothic sculptor portrayed Theodore as the ideal Christian-knight, cloathing him in cloak and chain-mail armor of the 13th century crusadors • handosme long haired youth holds his spear firmlu in his right hand and rest his left on his shield • head to left- hip to the right |
