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Die Skulptur des Querhauses der Kathedrale von Chartres
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ISBN: 3786117241 Year: 1995 Publisher: Berlin : Gebr. Mann,


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Chartres : Biographie der Kathedrale
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ISBN: 3770111907 Year: 1984 Publisher: Köln DuMont

Découvrir Notre-Dame de Paris.
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ISBN: 2204029173 9782204029179 Year: 1988 Publisher: Cerf

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres
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ISBN: 0140390545 9780140390544 Year: 1986 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books

Chartres : The Masons who built a Legend
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ISBN: 0710008864 Year: 1982 Publisher: London Routledge and Kegan Paul

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Notre-Dame-de-Chartres, probably the most impressive and exciting building of the Middle Ages, is one of the few to have been preserved almost intact. This cathedral, which appeals so deeply to scholarship and to fantasy, to the researcher and the devout, seems to pose as many riddles as the Sphinx. Was there a mystical genius behind the plan? What was the complex blend of numbers, geometry and symbolism used in its creation? John James's detailed work on the cathedral, the most exacting study made on any medieval monument, has revealed the answers to many of these tantalising questions. We have no names for the architects of Chartres, and yet it is not the work of anonymous men. By examining every stage of the construction, the author has isolated all the master masons, and shows that each of the masters had his own measure, his own technique of geometry and his preferred style of carving. And yet the mystery remains, for throughout the many building campaigns, a wonderful artistic unity was maintained. Although no documents or legends survive from which we can know the masters, John James brings them alive. His detailed reading of the stones of the cathedral reveals an enormous amount about these men; how they solved problems of engineering and design, and which other famous monuments they helped to create. The masters devised structures, skeletal and open, that are totally modern, with an engineering skill that was not to be repeated until the nineteenth century. They set new standards that were so successful that their influence can be felt in every country where Gothic is to be found.


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Sculptors of the West Portals of Chartres Cathedral : their origins in romanesque and their role in Chartrain sculpture, including the West Portals of Saint-Denis and Chartres, Harvard, 1952
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ISBN: 0393023656 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Norton


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Rome en Chartres : een stad, een kathedraal : essay
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ISBN: 9028906991 Year: 1982 Volume: vol *24 Publisher: Antwerpen Amsterdam De Nederlandsche boekhandel


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Les vitraux légendaires de Chartres : des récits et des images
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ISBN: 2220027252 9782220027258 Year: 1988 Publisher: Paris: Desclée De Brouwer,

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Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Chartres --- Glass painting and staining, Medieval --- Vitraux médiévaux --- Cathédrale de Chartres --- Glass painting and staining, Gothic --- Glass painting and staining --- Cathédrale de Chartres --- Bible --- Illustrations --- 247.4 --- 748 <44 CHARTRES> --- -Glass painting and staining --- -Glass, Stained --- Painted glass --- Stained glass --- Decoration and ornament --- Glass, Ornamental --- Glass art --- Glass craft --- Painting --- Glass, Colored --- Stained glass industry --- Gothic glass painting and staining --- Kerkversiering: mozaïeken; glasramen; schilderijen; luchters; kandelaars --- Glaskunst. Glazenierskunst. Kristalwerk--Frankrijk--CHARTRES --- Cathedrale de Chartres --- Notre-Dame (Cathedral : Chartres, France) --- Chartres, France. --- Notre-Dame de Chartres (Cathedral) --- Chartres Cathedral --- -Kerkversiering: mozaïeken; glasramen; schilderijen; luchters; kandelaars --- 748 <44 CHARTRES> Glaskunst. Glazenierskunst. Kristalwerk--Frankrijk--CHARTRES --- 247.4 Kerkversiering: mozaïeken; glasramen; schilderijen; luchters; kandelaars --- -247.4 Kerkversiering: mozaïeken; glasramen; schilderijen; luchters; kandelaars --- Glass, Stained --- Vitraux médiévaux --- Cathédrale de Chartres. --- Illustrations. --- Biblia --- stained glass [visual works] --- decorative arts --- decorative arts [discipline] --- Glass painting and staining, Gothic - France - Chartres --- Glass painting and staining - France - Chartres


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Le vitrail du Bon Samaritain : Chartres, Sens, Bourges
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ISBN: 2227810025 9782227810020 Year: 1987 Publisher: Paris: Le Centurion,

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