From Chartres cathedral, West (main entry) Façade
Photo is from personal collection of Judith Chabot
For more information, using Dr. Alison Stones' website:
Title of Work: West Facade, Central Portal
Title of Image: Left Jamb Figures
Date: c. 1145
• larger image of same sculptures
• More pictures of sculptures on the left jamb of the central portal
• All areas of the West façade
Photo is from personal collection of Judith Chabot
For more information, using Dr. Alison Stones' website:
Title of Work: West Facade, Central Portal
Title of Image: Left Jamb Figures
Date: c. 1145
• larger image of same sculptures
• More pictures of sculptures on the left jamb of the central portal
• All areas of the West façade
Bourges Cathedral, showing Flying buttresses
From the collection of Prof. Jeffery Howe, Boston College
Reims Cathedral sculptures
Annunciation and Visitation, Reims Cathedral, West Façade (Source for same image, but from Alison Stone's Medieval Art and Architecture page, University of Pittsburgh)
Laon Cathedral, capital insdide the nave (la nef)
Acanthus leaf capital, typical of Gothic style capitals
Click here , then click on the words la nef
Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Paray le Monial, in the Burgundy area of France
• Romanesque chevet
• more images and information and other Romanesque churches
Basilique Ste. Madeleine, Vézelay, in Burgundy
Interior capital (example of typical Romanesque historiated capital)
Vézelay capital in nave, "The Mystic Mill"
• more pictures and information at Romanes.com
• more information on the story depicted in "The Mystic Mill" , from Images of Medieval Art & Architecture at the University of PIttsburgh, Alison Stone • closer view • more detailed information (then click on DESCRIPTION above image to left)
• more information on all of the historiated capitals inside Vézelay from Images of Medieval Art & Architecture at the University of PIttsburgh
• more information on all parts of Vézelay, from the Images of Medieval Art & Architecture page at the University of Pittsburgh (or newer page, here)
Interior capital (example of typical Romanesque historiated capital)
Vézelay capital in nave, "The Mystic Mill"
• more pictures and information at Romanes.com
• more information on the story depicted in "The Mystic Mill" , from Images of Medieval Art & Architecture at the University of PIttsburgh, Alison Stone • closer view • more detailed information (then click on DESCRIPTION above image to left)
• more information on all of the historiated capitals inside Vézelay from Images of Medieval Art & Architecture at the University of PIttsburgh
• more information on all parts of Vézelay, from the Images of Medieval Art & Architecture page at the University of Pittsburgh (or newer page, here)