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Popular action-adventure video game Assassin's Creed features a climbable cathedral modelled heavily on the Chartres Cathedral. Chartres Cathedral and, especially, its labyrinth are featured in the novels Labyrinth and The City of Tears by Kate Mosse, who was educated in and is a resident of Chartres' twin city Chichester. [82] [83] [84]
Français : Ref MH PA00096993 Flèche nord de la cathédrale de Chartres, dans le style gothique flamboyant. Tour dite du clocher neuf initialement construite entre 1134 et 1150, puis reconstruite par Jehan de Beauce de 1507 à 1513. Haute de 115,18m, elle fait partie des plus hautes flèches de France.
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]
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.
Stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral; V. Virgin's veil This page was last edited on 7 January 2024, at 14:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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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 ...
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