360° panoramic views
These panoramic views were realized and kindly made available to Chartres Cathedral by Andrew TALLON, historian of medieval art and architecture, Associate Professor of Art at Vassar College (New York), who died in December 2018.
Carried out indoors as well as outdoors, they will allow you to get as close as possible to certain details and scenes, in a remarkable quality of view.
They were carried out before the interior restoration work of the cathedral.
For all these views, the photo credit is: Andrew J. Tallon © The Trustees of Columbia University, Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History & Archaeology
from the Nord Walkway
– in front of the Chapel of the Martyrs: all the details of the choir’s closing…
from the Transept Crossroads
– view on the nave and the choir: four majestic piers, delimiting the present liturgical space…
in front of the Royal Portal
– view of the main facade: vertiginous counter-dive…
from the Narthex
– view on the nave, in the axis of the cathedral. In the axis of the widest vessel in France…
from the North Transept
– during a celebration…
under the North Porch
– central bay: the great prophets and patriarchs (Melchisedech, Abraham, Moses, Aaron, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Simeon, John the Baptist, Peter) preceding and announcing the coming of the Messiah around Hannah – carrying Mary in her arms…
under the North Porch
– bay on the left: on either side, dialoguing, the Angel and Mary (Annunciation), Mary and Elizabeth (Visitation)…
– at the tympanum, adoration of the shepherds and the Magi, at the foot of the Child Jesus…
under the North Porch
– bay on the right: the figures of wisdom of Jews and Gentiles : Balaam, the Queen of Sheba, Solomon, Ben Sirach the Wise, a Sibyl, Joseph…
– at the tympanum, Job on his dung and the judgment of Solomon…
under the South Porch
– central bay: the twelve apostles around Christ…
– at the tympanum, the Last Judgement…
under the South Porch
– bay on the right: the ‘confessors’, bishops of the first centuries of the Church…
– at the tympanum, evocation of the life of St Martin and St Nicolas…
