ambulatory and raidiating chapels, abbey church

Saint-Denis, France

1144

Gothic

Abbot Suger

West facade, Chartres Cathedral

Chartres, France

1155

Early Gothic

Royal Portal, west facade

Chartes Cathedral

Chartes, France

1155

Early Gothic

Old Testament kings & queen, jamb statues

central doorway of Royal Portal

Chartres Cathedral

1155

1st sign of naturalism

Notre-Dame (looking north)

Paris, France

1200

Gothic

-used flying buttresses

Virgin and Child and Angels

(Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere)

window, Chartres Cathedral

1170

Early Gothic

Saint Theodore, Porch of the Martyrs

Chartres Cathedral

1230

High Gothic