Chartres, Notre-Dame, nave.
Photograph courtesy of Whitney
S.Stoddard.
choir retains its 12th-century plan of five bays terminating in a hemicycle with side and
radiating chapels. Its upper stories were rebuilt ca. 1260–1300 in the Rayonnant style.
The glazed clerestory of choir (ca. 1270 reusing glass ca. 1245), chevet (ca. 1295–1300),
and nave (ca. 1300–15) shows developments in stained-glass composition and technique
combining grisaille and colored panels. Together, the cathedral of Notre-Dame and the
abbey of Saint-Père show the importance of Chartres as an artistic center in the Gothic
period.
Karen Gould
[See also: BERNARD OF CHARTRES; BERNARD SILVESTRIS; BOETHIUS,
INFLUENCE OF; CLAREMBALD OF ARRAS; DUNOIS, JEAN, COMTE DE;
FULBERT OF CHARTRES; GILBERT OF POITIERS; GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE;
GOTHIC ART; IVO OF CHARTRES; MACROBIUS, INFLUENCE OF; PLATO,
INFLUENCE OF; ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE; SCHOOLS, CATHEDRAL;
STAINED GLASS; WILLIAM OF CONCHES]
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