The portals with three doors on the north,south and west fronts of Chartres cathedral may have been intended to evoke this passage.Stained glass windows bring to mind the colors of translucent semi-precious stones such as were,indeed,carved into liturgical vessels (9.37). In a mystical sense,however,the new jerusalem was associated with the Virgin Mary as the 'bride' mentioned by St john.and a late twelfth-century English miniature shows her shrouded body borne up to heaven in a canopy held by angels,resembling a Gothic ribbed vault (9.39).the anagogical or mystical interpretation of Gothic could not be more explicitly expressed.
Solomon's Temple was by no means forgotten by no means forgotten by the builders of Gothic cathedrals or indeed by architects of later centuries who believed that its measurements,recorded in the books of kings and chronicles ,provided a scale of ideal proportions. But artists depicted it in the architectural styles of their own times. In an illustratration to josephus's antiquities and wars of the jews,for instance ,the french painter jean Fouquet (c.1420-82) showed it as a structure in the elaborate Gothic style of fifteenth-century France (9.40) with an abunddance with an abundance of statues and crockets,giving also avivid glimpse of masons at work carving stones and hoisting them into place under the eyes of Solomon himself.this building has a porch with the three gates that link it with the Heavenly Jerusalem.