chartres cathedral rose window

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...


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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...
The Dog in the Cathedral « Le Presbytère

No other cathedral has had stained glass windows stand the test of time like the ones at Chartres. 152 out of the 176 windows are the originals! The western facing rose window was my favorite because it was so different than...
chartres cathedral rose window