The architecture of the cathedral with its innovative combination of rib vaults and flying buttresses permitted the construction of much higher and thinner walls particularly at the top clerestory level allowing more and larger windows.
Rose window chartres cathedral interior.
Located in the north transept of the church the windows are made from glass that has been stained to create a beautiful visual image.
Like the sculpture the stained glass was intended to be educational.
It dates to c.
Here you will see the largest labyrinth ever built in france on the floor of the central nave.
These windows survived a devastating fire in the cathedral in 1194 and are considered some of the best examples of 12th century work in france.
The rose window was made sixty years later in 1215 after the 1195 fire with the new cathedral s nave higher.
There are 167 windows including rose windows round oculi and tall pointed lancet windows.
In chartres cathedral the windows emphasize the verticality of the interior their brilliant images arranged in panels one above another.
Above are abraham and the elect whilst below are souls being weighed and the twelve apostles.
Its centre shows christ the judge showing his windows angels and the four beasts from the book of revelation.
The high rose windows also contribute by apparently floating in the blackness as if without structural support.
Rose window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window but is especially used for those found in gothic cathedrals and churches the windows are divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery the term rose window was not used before the 17th century and according to the oxford english dictionary among other authorities comes from the english flower name rose.
View over the west rose window of the 13th century.
Chartres cathedral contains 176 stained glass windows the feature for which it may be best known.
1215 ce and depicts scenes from the last judgement with jesus christ represented as the judge of humanity dominating the central panel.
The nave of notre dame de chartres is approximately 37 meters high.
The five windows of the choir hemicycle a semicircular arrangement relate in various ways to the virgin mary.
The rose and lancet windows are located in chartres cathedral in chartres france.
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The west rose window is the largest of the cathedral s three rose windows measuring 15 42 metres in diameter.
The west rose window.