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Search Advanced. By Properties. Cultural Criteria: i ii iii iv v vi Natural Criteria: vii viii ix x. Category Cultural Natural Mixed. All With videos With photo gallery. Country Region Year Name of the property. Without With. Chartres Cathedral Partly built starting in , and then reconstructed over a year period after the fire of , Chartres Cathedral marks the high point of French Gothic art. Kathedraal van Chartres De Kathedraal van Chartres is gedeeltelijk gebouwd in en na de brand in in 26 jaar voltooid.
Outstanding Universal Value Brief synthesis Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral, located in the Centre-Val-de-Loire region, is one of the most authentic and complete works of religious architecture of the early 13th century. Integrity Chartres Cathedral was considered as a model from the time of its construction, due to the novelty and perfection of the technical and aesthetic parts that were adopted. Authenticity Chartres Cathedral presents outstanding authenticity, both through its structure and its decor, notably the portals and their sculptured decoration having undergone little alteration, and the exceptional ensemble of stained-glass of the 13th century, which are the object of constant conservation measures, and are today in a remarkable state of conservation.
Protection and management requirements Property of the State, Chartres Cathedral is listed in its totality as Historic Monument since WebGL must be enable, see documentation. Then in the center we have the Second Coming of Christ, when the dead rise from their graves and all of mankind is judged. So a period before time, a period of human time, and a period at the end of time.
This is called hieratic scale emphasizing His relative importance. He is shown seated on the throne of heaven surrounded by a mandorla. Below him we see 12 figures. These are the 12 apostles. Now, the jamb figures are especially beautiful here at Chartres. These represent Old Testament prophets and kings and queens, and by association, the kings and queens of France. They're so long and attenuated. They're so solid and so elegant.
And so there's a interdependence between the architecture and the sculpture that adorns it. Or even why their feet seem to be dangling down a bit. They're not meant to look physical and on this earth. They're meant to look transcendent. If you look at the drapery, the falls are indicated by lines. Instead, there's a real emphasis on the linear.
Each figure seems isolated from the figures beside it. I think we oughta use the doors. Let's go in. We've walked into the cathedral and we're entering into this long space, which was based on a basilica plan. It's longitudinal. It has an entrance on one end, opposite that is the apse, the holiest part of the church. This was so that pilgrims, that is religious visitors, could enter the church and move through to the apse and around the other side without disturbing a mass that might be taking place.
We were looking at the west front and that was part of a church that dated to But in , there was a terrible fire and most of the church burned to the ground.
When the people of Chartres saw that the tunic was saved, they interpreted this as a miracle, one with a message.
That the Virgin Mary wanted an even more beautiful and grander church to house her relic. The church that we're sitting in now that was built after the fire is clearly the beginning of the High Gothic style.
And that area is called the triforium. Above that, we see a very tall clerestory windows. In this case, each bay of the nave we see two lancet windows topped by an oculus. You can see them soaring from the pavement below all the way up.
As we follow those colonettes up, we see that they divide into ribs that form the four-part ribbed groin vaults that constitute the ceiling, the vaulting of this church. The early Christians erected a basilica there during the 4th century, and St. Bernard preached the Second Crusade there in Later in history, Chartres was the coronation site of Henry IV in Later medieval insistence that Christianity came to Chartres as early as the 1st century AD was bound up with local legends focused on the cult.
The story was elaborated over the centuries, but it flourished particularly during the late Middle Ages and during the Baroque period, when it was successfully fused with the image of the cathedral itself. As a whole, the building dates from the 13th century.
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