2. Ambulatory and radiating chapels
Abbey Church of Saint-Denis
Saint Denis, France
1140-1144
• EARLY GOTHIC
• Carolingian basilica “unfit” for
royalty converted into marvelous
Gothic church
• Rib vaults on pointed arches
• Lux nova
7. Virgin and Child and Angels
(Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière)
choir of Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France
ca. 1170
stained glass
16 ft. x 7 ft. 8 in.
8. Rose Window and lancets
north transept of Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France
ca. 1220
stained glass
rose approximately 43 ft. in diameter
9. South façade of Notre Dame Cathedral
Paris, France
begun 1163, nave & flying buttresses ca. 1180-1200, remodeled after 1225
10.
11. Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Cormont,
and Renaud de Cormont
West facade of Amiens Cathedral
Amiens, France
begun 1220
HIGH GOTHIC FACADE
King’sGallery
16. Blanche of Castille, Louis IX
and two monks
dedication page (folio 8 recto)
of a moralized Bible
from Paris, France
1226-1234
ink, tempera and gold leaf on vellum
15 x 10 1/2 in.
17. Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreaux
from the abbey church of Saint-Denis
Saint-Denis, France
1339
silver gilt and enamel
27 1/2 in. high