Auxerre Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre) located in Auxerre, Burgundy, France, is known for its expansive stained glass windows.
Most of the Burgundian Gothic cathedral was built 1215 – 1233, over an 11th-century crypt, but building continued until the 1540s, when the cupola in Renaissance style that takes the place of one pinnacle on the completed tower was completed. The first building campaign erected the chevet at the liturgical...
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Auxerre Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre) located in Auxerre, Burgundy, France, is known for its expansive stained glass windows.
Most of the Burgundian Gothic cathedral was built 1215 – 1233, over an 11th-century crypt, but building continued until the 1540s, when the cupola in Renaissance style that takes the place of one pinnacle on the completed tower was completed. The first building campaign erected the chevet at the liturgical east end, followed later in the century by a new façade and the bases of new towers at the west end, still linked to the apse end by the nave of the old cathedral. Construction on the nave and transepts proceeded slowly through the 14th and 15th centuries.
The narrative sculptural program of the portals on the west end are noted for their extent and variety. Guillaume de Seignelay, bishop of Auxerre decided to undertake the reconstruction of the older edifice about 1215, to which he set an example by contributing heavily and consistently from...
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