Frank Gehry agreed, saying in the 2005 documentary Sketches of Frank Gehry, “If you go into Chartres, it drops you to your knees.” The cathedral is remarkable ... which he sought to emulate in his own ...

Could you sketch the history of ... How are the architecture, statuary and windows of the cathedral interrelated? When lecturing on Chartres Cathedral, I liken it to a modern public library ...

When an earlier church burned down in 1194, Chartres Cathedral was rebuilt so quickly and lavishly that it gained a much-appreciated unity of architecture, statuary, and stained glass ...

A great side trip from Paris is the city of Chartres — and its famous cathedral, arguably Europe’s best example of pure Gothic architecture. It was built quickly, so the cathedral has a unity ...

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 ...

A picture taken on September 15, 2015 in Chartres, near Paris shows the vault of the Cathedral during its ... decor has failed to placate shocked architecture lovers across the Atlantic who ...

Over the past seven years, Chartres has been the subject – or some say the victim – of the most ambitious internal renovation to be undertaken at any Gothic cathedral. The dingy internal walls ...

Notre Dame of Chartres Cathedral in ... spectacular restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, he wrote that in this place he had “really felt what architecture is about; it seemed to me ...