Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres (part 1)발음듣기
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres (part 1)
We're in the town of Chartres looking at Notre Dame de Chartres which is one of the great medieval cathedrals, but it's got a complicated history.발음듣기
We don't know if it's true of course, but we do know is that there probably was a Roman temple here.발음듣기
A church that was always associated with the Virgin Mary, and in the ninth century, the church received a special gift by way of Constantinople, a relic of the tunic of the Virgin Mary.발음듣기
It could be a part of a saint, or it could be a piece of clothing or something in some very direct way related to a spiritual figure.발음듣기
So for instance, the crown of thorns that Christ wore, or in this case, the tunic that is believed Mary wore when she gave birth to Christ.발음듣기
Relics were critically important, because they were believed to actually have a kind of spiritual power that could benefit those who paid reverence to it.발음듣기
And what this meant was that people would travel enormous distances to go and pay homage to these relics often bringing gifts and offerings.발음듣기
And there were these pilgrimage routes, and for the first time Europe is stable enough politically so that it was actually relatively safe to travel.발음듣기
And therefore had very special saving and protective powers. But something terrible happened.발음듣기
The great Romanesque church that housed the tunic, that pilgrims came to from far and wide, burned to the ground.발음듣기
Instead of the Virgin Mary having forsaken the town, instead of this being evidence of her anger, now it was clear that the Virgin simply wanted to get the old church out of the way so that in 1194 the town of Chartes could raise a church that was equal to her importance in its splendor.발음듣기
The architect of Chartes whose name we don't know, built the church on the foundations of what was left of the Romanesque church that had been here.발음듣기
And this church is one of the most pre-eminent examples, and probably the most unified example, of the Gothic in France.발음듣기
We're talking about a new focus on opening up the walls of the church and a new focus on geometry.발음듣기
And the church could mirror the measure, the numbers with which God had created the universe.발음듣기
So what is sometime referred to as Chartes I, the westwork, the part that survived the fire of 1194, that was built earlier, that part feels so much more massive.발음듣기
The architect is not yet shedding the fears that went along with the Romanesque where the walls had to be solid, had to be massive.발음듣기
A reference to the Trinity, but I think more importantly organized according to the Golden Ratio.발음듣기
[hammers ringing] You can actually hear some of the masons working, doing some repairs on the church.발음듣기
They have drapery with folds indicated by lines carved into the stone and in some cases indicating a knee or a hip.발음듣기
I'm taken by the pure aesthetic beauty of these figures to represent these figures as gatekeepers, somebody that can hasten our entry into the spiritual realm.발음듣기
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