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The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts (Yale University Press; 2010) 612 pages; Discusses Mary's gown and other relics held by the Chartres Cathedral in a study of history making and the cult of the Virgin of Chartres in the 11th and 12th centuries. Grant, Lindy.
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a book written by the American historian and scholar Henry Adams (1838–1918). Adams wrote it well after his historical masterpiece, The History of the United States of America (1801–1817) .
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 ...
Largest Catholic parish church in North America. Christ Cathedral: 3,030 [93] 1977–1980 Garden Grove, California United States: Catholic Formerly known as the Crystal Cathedral. Consecrated as the Christ Cathedral [94] Westminster Abbey: 2,972 [95] 2,200 [96] 960–c. 18 cent. London United Kingdom: Anglican (Church of England)
Jehan (Jean) Texier or Le Texier (before 1474 – 29 December 1529 in Chartres [1]), better known as Jehan (Jean) de Beauce was a 15th/16th-century French architect. He is known for his works of religious architecture, notably on the Chartres cathedral of which he reconstructed the northern spire.
Whole window. Saint Thomas Becket window in Chartres Cathedral is a 1215–1225 stained-glass window in Chartres Cathedral, located behind a grille in the Confessors' Chapel, second chapel of the south ambulatory. 8.9 m high by 2.18 m wide, it was funded by the tanners' guild. [1]
The two main high schools are the Lycée Jehan de Beauce and the Lycée Marceau, named after two important personages of the history of Chartres: Jehan de Beauce was a 16th-century architect who rebuilt the northern steeple of the cathedral after it had been destroyed by lightning in July 1506, and Marceau, a native of city, who was a general ...
The stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral are held to be one of the best-preserved and most complete set of medieval stained glass, notably celebrated for their colours, especially their cobalt blue. They cover 2600 square metres in total and consist of 172 bays illustrating biblical scenes, the lives of the saints and scenes from the ...