26 Jan 2011

Notre-Dame d'Amiens

Submitted by walwyn

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981 for the coherence of its plan, and the beauty of its three-tier interior elevation Notre-Dame d'Amiens, is the tallest completed Gothic church and largest cathedral in France. The Romanesque cathedral had been destroyed by fire in 1218, and Bishop Evrard de Fouilly employed Robert de Luzarches as the architect to build the new cathedral in the Gothic style to house the head of John the Baptist which had been bought back as a relic by Wallon de Sarton returning from Constantinople in 1206 after the 4th crusade.

 

France
Somme
Medieval
Gothic
Architecture
Sculpture
Tomb

Notre-Dame de Chartres

Designated a World heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979 the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres was built from between 1145 and 1250. It's high nave is spanned by ogival pointed arches to form the vault, and the walls are supported by double flying buttresses. Chartres is the first building to have used buttresses as a structural element.

 

Chartres Cathedral is also unique in having retained almost all of its original 12th and 13th century stained glass.

France
Eure-et-Loir
Medieval
Romanesque
Gothic
Architecture
Sculpture
Stained Glass
12 Apr 2009

Nymphula

Submitted by walwyn

A genus of moths of the Crambidae family.
 
These moths have long slender bodies, rectanglular fore wings, and rounded hind wings. They tend to have white, brown or yellowish markings. The larvae feed on water lilies.
 
 

Nymphula

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