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Title of the work of art :Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres: architectureGothicart

Date: 1260

Location: France

Place of Manufacture: Chartres

Material: Limestone

Technique: Flying buttress

Figure1: The Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres

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2: The Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres

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Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartresis composed by three parts: the main

body

and

two?contrasting

spires,

105

meter

and

113

meter

respectively.(See

Figure

1)The

church has

three temples connected

with

three doors, which stands for

Jesus

’s activity and

life in different

periods.(See Figure 2)As the widest

nave of church in

France, the nave of

Chartres Cathedral is

meters long,

meters wide and

meters high. The west front entrance

is

a

set

of

pointed

arch

doors,

with

19

cylindrical

statues.

As

Chartres

Cathedral

website

(2016)

has

introduced,

the

center

of

the

church

is

a

maze?with

320

yards

(290

meters)

of

winding

passages,

which

is

the

only

one

still

intact

in

France

and

the

three

facades

are

decorated by hundreds of sculpted figures.

Figure 3: The interior space Chartres Cathedral

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