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Oct 16, 2018 · The 167 stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral, built 1190-1220 CE, are the most complete group surviving anywhere from the Middle Ages. Several windows date to the mid-12th century CE while over 150 survive from the early 13th century CE.
- Mark Cartwright
Chartres Cathedral is home to the largest collection of preserved medieval stained-glass windows in the world. The windows are in an excellent state of conservation and currently undergoing an active restoration phase to return them to their original splendour.
The 12th-century windows in Chartres Cathedral include some of its most significant stained glass works: Lancet Windows Under West Rose Window: These three windows date back to around 1145 and were later restored. – The right window, the Jesse Window, displays the genealogy of Christ.
Scroll through the windows of the cathedral: the stained glass windows are progressively put online in our interactive animation. Vivid colors, accurate gestures, rich decorations: when the scenes scroll before our eyes, they still amaze us 800 years later.
The stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral are held to be one of the best-preserved and most complete set of medieval stained glass, notably celebrated for their colours, especially their cobalt blue. They cover 2600 square metres in total and consist of 172 bays illustrating biblical scenes, the lives of the saints and scenes from the ...
A database to make information on stained glass accessible to all. The implementation of these two tools (application and digital room) has led to the creation of a database containing all the information on Chartres Cathedral’s stained glass windows (texts, photos, drawings, videos, etc.).
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Chartres Cathedral’s most famous piece of stained-glass is the Romanesque Virgin that forms part of a window in the south ambulatory. Painted in the mid-12th century, it was placed there after the fire of 1194.
