Gothic

Chartres Cathedral

walwyn Sun, 11/07/2010 - 19:03

 

Chartres Cathedral has some of the most beautiful medieval stained glass windows to have survive the upheavals of the last 800 years. The earliest date from the mid 12th century, but most are from the 13th century.

 

 

Chartres Cathedral Gothic Sculpture

 

The cathedral of Chartres contains a number of Gothic sculptures. The typmanums above the west porches on the west facade and the decoration on the pillars on the south side are entirely Gothic.

Childhood of Christ

walwyn Tue, 09/25/2012 - 21:17

This window (c1260), in the apse of Tours cathedral, contains sixteen scenes from the Annunciation to the Flight into Egypt.

 

Children and Monuments from the late medieval period to the 17th century.

walwyn Tue, 11/08/2011 - 19:46

Monuments or memorials to children in English churches were extremely rare until the late 18th and early 19th century. In the 16th century one can find the occassional child tomb amongst the aristocracy, such as that of the The Noble Impe at St Mary's Warwick, but otherwise children do not appear to have warranted memorials in their own right.

Christ Carrying Cross (cell 28)

walwyn Sat, 04/26/2025 - 14:08

 

 

This images of Christ Carrying the Cross is in cell 28 of the San Marco convent.

Christ in Majesty

walwyn Tue, 10/13/2009 - 22:00

 

 

These wall paintings of Christ in Majesty represent Christ as ruler of the universe. Normally he is in a mandorla and surrounded by other figures and objects. The other figures depicted change from time to time.

 

 

Christ in Majesty - Stanford of Avon, Northamptonshire

walwyn Mon, 01/24/2011 - 00:48

 

 

[no-glossary]Christ in Majesty[/no-glossary] and the Virgin Enthroned (c1340) Stanford on Avon, Northamptonshire.

Cleansing the Temple Polychrome Relief - Amiens Cathedral

walwyn Mon, 02/28/2011 - 23:43

 

 

These polychrome reliefs in Amiens cathedral are of Jesus Cleansing the Temple. They were donated in 1523 by Jean Wytz and are on the west wall of the north transept.

 

 

Confessors - Chartres Cathedral

walwyn Sun, 12/18/2011 - 20:39

 

In addition to the martyrs, the south porch contains a sequence of images of those that had proclaimed Christian beliefs during periods of suppression (confessors).

Coronation of the Virgin (cell 9)

walwyn Sun, 05/04/2025 - 14:30

 

 

This fresco by Fra Angelico 1438-1443) depicting the Coronation of the Virgin is in cell 9 of the San Marco monastery in Florence.

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