choir

Examples of choir in the following topics:

• Norman Stained Glass

  • Perhaps the most famous 12th-century window at Chartres is the so-called Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière, found in the first bay of the choir after the south transept.
  • Each bay of the aisles and the choir ambulatory contains one large lancet window, most of them roughly 8.1 meters high by 2.2 meters wide.
  • Those in the choir depict the kings of France and Castille and members of the local nobility in the straight bays, while the windows in the apse hemicycle show those Old Testament prophets who foresaw the virgin birth, flanking scenes of the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity in the axial window.
  • Unlike the earlier Romanesque windows, the 13th-century glazing program in the upper parts of the choir is largely intact.
  • View of the north elevation of the choir from the south aisle, showing the triforium and clerestory windows.

• Gothic Architecture: The Abbey Church of Saint Denis

  • His successor, who completed the western facade and upper stories of the narthex before going on to build the new choir, displayed a more restrained approach to decorative effects, relying on a simple repertoire of motifs, which may have proved more suitable for the lighter Gothic style that he helped to create.
  • He wanted a choir (chancel) that would be suffused with light.

• English Gothic Architecture

  • The Gothic style was first developed in France, where the various elements had first been used together within a single building at the choir of the Basilique Saint-Denis north of Paris, built by Abbot Suger and dedicated in June 1144.
  • By 1175, the Gothic style had been firmly established in England with the completion of the Choir at Canterbury Cathedral by William of Sens.

• Chartreuse de Champmol

  • The monastery was built for twenty-four choir monks, instead of the usual twelve in a Carthusian house.
  • The number of Valois tombs never approached that of their Capetian predecessors at Cîteaux, as the choir of the church was not large enough to accommodate them.

• Gothic Cathedrals

  • This nave is flanked on either side by aisles, a transverse arm called the transept, and, beyond it, an extension referred to as the choir.

• Romanesque Architecture: The Church of Saint-Lazare

  • Lazare has a ground plan in the form of a Latin cross, with an aisled nave, a plain transept, and a three-stage choir with a semicircular end.

• German Gothic Architecture

  • The choir of the cathedral, measured between the piers, also holds the distinction of having the largest height to width ratio of any Medieval church.

• Norman Architecture

  • The interior choir and the exterior apse display an architecture that embodies the transition from Gothic to Renaissance.

• Renaissance Sculpture in Florence

  • Donatello's other important projects in and near Florence include the marble pulpit of the facade of the Prato cathedral, the carved Cantoria or choir at the Florence Duomo, which was influenced by ancient sarcophagi and Byzantine ivory chests, the Annunciation scene for the Cavalcanti altar in the church of Santa Croce, and a bust of Young Man with a Cameo, the first example of a lay bust portrait since the classical era.

• Architecture of the Holy Roman Empire

  • Because of its enormous twin spires, it also has the largest façade of any church in the world, and its choir boasts the largest height to width ratio of any Medieval church.