Chartres

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• Sheeler's next major group of photographs, made at Chartres Cathedral

  Academic text (2004)

• Visitors come from all over the world to admire the stunning architecture of Chartres Cathedral.

• And you got to see Chartres, such an experience.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "The Bishop of Chartres entered the room.

  Fiction book (1994)

• You remember that rapturous look I mentioned way back in Chartres?

  Fiction book (2001)

• Far from venerating the past, he argues that famous buildings like Chartres Cathedral could even have been built better with the latest techniques.

  Academic text (2000)

• To the southwest, they could see as far as Chartres, and to the northeast to Villers-Cotterets, fifty-five miles away.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Several manuscripts from Chartres, likewise, demonstrate an interest in linear expression at this important scriptorium (Fig. 12).

  Academic text (1999)

• Willibald Sauerlander has distinguished three major stylistic groups within the surviving reliefs from Chartres.

  Academic text (2000)

• Indeed, prior to the university stood the cathedral schools of Chartres, Laon, Rheims, Orléans, and Notre Dame de Paris.

  Academic text (2008)

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Chartres Cathedral

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A famous Gothic cathedral in northern France with large medieval stained glass windows

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