Chartres

Billy Conch taught at the Cathedral school in Chartres back in 12 cent., just before the works of Aristotle were finally translated into Latin.

October 17th, 2009 m_francis 2009

They have been awed by the stained glass in Chartres Cathedral, imitated Napoleon´s final speech to his troops in Fontainebleau, tasted the flinty white wine of Chablis, and followed the tracks of Richard the Lion Hearted to the medieval hilltop village of Vezelay.

The Legacy of the Niagara Special 1998

The finest example of this is arguably the north rose window in Chartres.

The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 4 & conclusion 2009

Wondering if Bill, above, means Malcolm Miller, in Chartres.

regard fixe - French Word-A-Day 2010

The defects of Paris are almost wholly absent in Chartres, which is the most nearly perfect of all Gothic cathedrals both in conception and in the details of its working out.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

When we get to Chartres, which is largely a twelfth-century work, you will see that the cathedral there, too, is superbly built, of the hardest and heaviest stone within reach, which has nowhere settled or given way; while, beneath, you will find a crypt that rivals the church above.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

Chartres was also a famous shrine, but of the Virgin, and the west porch of Chartres, which is to be our peculiar pilgrimage, was a hundred years later than the ground-plan of Mont-Saint-Michel, although Chartres porch is the usual starting-point of northern

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

Langæus, and Bellæus that be dead, & the noble Vidam of Chartres, that is aliue, and infinite mo in France, which I heare tell of, proue this to be most false.

The Scholemaster 1570

Gothic fanatics commonly reckon the great rose windows of the thirteenth century as the most beautiful creation of their art, among the details of ornament; and this particular rose is the direct parent of that at Chartres, which is classic like the Parthenon, while both of them served as models or guides for that at Paris which dates from 1220, those in the north and south transepts at Rheims, about 1230, and so on, from parent to child, till the rose faded forever.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

This group of Dioramas on display from 1825-28, with their use of ruined Gothic structures, evoke the more literary and thematic aspects of the Gothic revival in the eighteenth century, and in this are somewhat distinct from the dioramic representations of intact Gothic cathedrals such as Chartres and

Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject 2005