Sunday, July 22, 2007

The Best French Cathedral Yet

Chartres has the title of "Classic High Gothic" cathedral in all the art history textbooks.
WHAT ARE THEY THINKING??!!

BOURGES is infinitely more beautiful, even if it did not spawn lots of copies.
It is elegant, economic, and multilayered.
It has slim clean buttress flyers and a gorgeously-unfolding interior pyramidal space.




I LOVE this building.
It is the COOLEST French cathedral, ever.
(Strasbourg excepted- which is not really French, anyway.)

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