Saturday, 5 November 2011

chartres cathedral rose window

The great rose window of the cathedral at Chartres vividly depicts the objects of belief for 12th-century Christians. Eero Saarinen's Trans World Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City...

Wagon Wheel Rose Windows of
Wagon Wheel Rose Windows of

Rose window at Chartres
Rose window at Chartres

Rose window - Wikipedia
Rose window - Wikipedia

Rose Window, Chartres
Rose Window, Chartres

Photo: Chartres Cathedral
Photo: Chartres Cathedral

Image of the rose window in
Image of the rose window in

My eyes however travel up to the magnificent rose window, exactly in the way the architects intended, dragging one's soul heavenwards to join the company of the holy family and the saints in the surreal glow of stained glass of the rose window. Chartres Cathedral is celebrated in a charming poem by Jorge Luis Borges which he wrote when he was employed as a librarian in the National Library of Argentina on the death of Sciavo a librarian colleague of his: The Two...
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Chartres Cathedral's North Rose window. To a modern viewer Medieval stained glass windows are a beautiful aspect of churches but to the Medieval viewer, stained glass windows were like books in Gothic Cathedrals, each...
chartres cathedral rose window

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