THE SOUTH PORCH OF CHARTRES CATHEDRAL

By Sara Lutan

Subjects: art history, Cathédrale de Chartres, history, Gothic Architecture, Buildings, structures, Gothic Sculpture, Church doorways, Gothic sculpture, French Sculpture

Description: The book examines the 96 haut-reliefs on the four piers of the cathedral's south porch.They reveal a unique phenomenon of thirteenth-century Gothic sculpture. It offers a concise discussion of the 96 southern reliefs at Chartres, their position in the vast artistic creation of the cathedral, their characterizations, and their historical, social, stylistic and iconographical contexts.