Gothic And Renaissance Architecture

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the Cathedral of Notre-Dame at Chartres was the first monument of the High Gothic. The Cathedral of Notre-Dame was a very important building which held the tunic that was thought to be worn by the Virgin Mary. The building was pledged by two separate fires and was rebuild and improved upon many times in a span of twenty-six years from 1194 to 1220. The interior elevations of the building were divided into three sections: the nave arcade, the triforium passage, and the clerestory windows. Suger’s ideas of colored light were incorporated into the Cathedral of Notre-Dame with three stained glass lancet windows. The interior’s luminescence was one of Chartres’ main features like many of the other Gothic cathedrals. The west front doorways of the building were sculpted with jamb statues of the kings and queens of the Old Testament. These jamb figures on the west were quite stylized and stiff. These figures show the progression of realism in the Gothic sculptor when compared to the portals carved a century later on the north and south transep...