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Bleu de Chartres

When you enter Chartres Cathedral, the blue light in the stained-glass windows immediately catches your eye: the famous blue of Chartres. There are many different colours in the stained glass, red, yellow, green, white … but it is the intensity of the blue that dominates the image.

The photo shows a detail of one of the windows, with Mary on her deathbed in the medallion, surrounded by the twelve apostles. The entire 8-metre-high window also features medallions depicting the funeral, ascension and coronation of Mary.

At the bottom of the photograph, we see shoemakers at work who belong to the shoemakers’ guild that donated the window at the beginning of the 13th century.

Photo of the week: Vitrail de la mort, sépulture et assomption de la Vierge, 042 dans le Corpus vitrearum, 1205-1215, detail du partie basse, Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Chartres, France 2024