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. It was the destination ...

Chartres, whose cathedral had been destroyed by fire four ... glass in barely two centuries — led the famous 19th-century architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to exclaim: “There’s no cathedral ...

The cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres is the crown of Gothic art and architecture. More than five decades ago, Mary’s smile beguiled Malcolm Miller, a native of Britain. Ever since ...

He once described France’s Chartres Cathedral as “this rich stone ... is perhaps Europe’s most iconic style of Christian architecture. It first emerged in France in the 12th century and ...

The Gothic cathedral—from St.-Denis and Notre-Dame of Paris to Chartres, Reims ... a new basilica that went on to transform Western architecture. They include: A detail from the Tree of Jesse ...

Great architecture, like any kind of great art, ultimately takes you somewhere that words cannot take you at all. And Fallingwater does that the way Chartres Cathedral does that. That there’s ...

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. It was the destination ...

Dedicated to Notre-Dame, Chartres Cathedral acquired strong associations with the cult of the Virgin. Most of the 12th- and 13th-century sculpture and stained glass survive, to make the cathedral one ...