It had a ‘wall great and high’ with three gates in each of its four sides, ‘And the building of the wall was jasper; and the city was pure good like unto clear glass. And foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire; the third chalcedony….’
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 mind the colors of translucent semi-precious stones such as were, indeed, carved into liturgical vessels (937), 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 explicitly expressed
Solomon's Temple was 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 own times. In an illustration to Josephus’s Antiquities and Wars of the Jews, for instance, the French painter Jean Fouquet (c. 1420-82) showed it as structure in the elaborate Gothic style of fifteenth-century France (9.40) with an abundance of statues and crockets, giving also a vivid glimpse of at masons at work carving stones and hoisting them into place under the eyes of Solomon himself.
It had a ‘wall great and high’ with three gates in each of its four sides, ‘And the building of the wall was jasper; and the city was pure good like unto clear glass. And foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire; the third chalcedony….’ 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 mind the colors of translucent semi-precious stones such as were, indeed, carved into liturgical vessels (937), 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 explicitly expressed Solomon's Temple was 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 own times. In an illustration to Josephus’s Antiquities and Wars of the Jews, for instance, the French painter Jean Fouquet (c. 1420-82) showed it as structure in the elaborate Gothic style of fifteenth-century France (9.40) with an abundance of statues and crockets, giving also a vivid glimpse of at masons at work carving stones and hoisting them into place under the eyes of Solomon himself.
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