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Rose window chartres cathedral interior.
In chartres cathedral the windows emphasize the verticality of the interior their brilliant images arranged in panels one above another.
Located in the north transept of the church the windows are made from glass that has been stained to create a beautiful visual image.
A few important examples of 12th century windows are found at chartres cathedral on the inside of the western facade in three lancet windows under the rose window.
The style of these windows are gothic and were added to the cathedral sometime between 1230 and 1235.
Above are abraham and the elect whilst below are souls being weighed and the twelve apostles.
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.
The west rose window.
The rose and lancet windows are located in chartres cathedral in chartres france.
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The five windows of the choir hemicycle a semicircular arrangement relate in various ways to the virgin mary.
View over the west rose window of the 13th century.
Like the sculpture the stained glass was intended to be educational.
The rose window was made sixty years later in 1215 after the 1195 fire with the new cathedral s nave higher.
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.
Chartres cathedral contains 176 stained glass windows the feature for which it may be best known.
The high rose windows also contribute by apparently floating in the blackness as if without structural support.
Its centre shows christ the judge showing his windows angels and the four beasts from the book of revelation.
The nave of notre dame de chartres is approximately 37 meters high.
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There are 167 windows including rose windows round oculi and tall pointed lancet windows.