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Cathedral de Charters. In
century XIII the Christian world has become urban and bourgeois much more. A new
ideology arises that is shaped in the ideals of the abbot of Suger, brightness
and splendor as opposed to the austerity of the Cister. The gothic one
characterizes by the verticality and the light that is the reflection of the
divinity. The new style will receive the support of the municipal authorities
and the bourgeoisie. The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartes, city near Paris,
considers one of best architectonic works of the gothic one. Of his covers it
emphasizes the Real Porch, with gorgeous medieval sculptures on saints and
prophets of the Old Testament, although without a doubt the remembered figure
more is the one of the Christ in Majesty of the eardrum.
Another famous door in the Porch of the Virgin, the same
artistic category. A second center of attention constitutes the magnificent set
of show windows that adorns the central ship. He is one of the little medieval
sets that have arrived complete and they integrate 173 windows. Finally, in
claustro of the cathedral we found the Museum of Beautiful Arts of Chartres, in
whose interior we can find the Santa Lucia de Zurbarán between works of Chardin,
Fragonard and Van Loo. The cathedral of Chartres reconstructed in a quarter of
single on the foundations of old building but, is a monument in honor of
Christ-God and our-Mrs. With its nine carved covers, the one in the world, its
2600 m² of show windows of centuries 12 and 13, is true encyclopedia Cristina of
stone and crystal, done for one population that nowise neither to read nor to
write. Expression of theology and the spirituality, these you imagine
development in a universal message, one education and one word of faith and
life... "The same thought of the average age returned visible" says Emile Male. |
