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Gothic Portal Sculpture

Type Object Region France Time c. 1190–1200

Late 12th-century French cathedral west facades and aisle portals with grouped stone saints, prophets, and Last Judgment scenes, marking the shift fr…

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  1. c. 1190–1195Notre-Dame de Paris · ParisThe Last Judgment and Coronation of the Virgin groups of the west facade's three portals continued to be carved in this period; drapery shifted from flatness toward greater volume, becoming a classic example of early Gothic sculpture.
  2. c. 1195–1200Chartres Cathedral · Centre-Val de LoireOn the eve of reconstruction after the 1194 fire, the column-figures and narrative band compositions of Île-de-France portal sculpture were already being borrowed by craftsmen elsewhere, establishing an iconographic template for classic Gothic portal sculpture in the early 13th century.

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