Explore the origins of Gothic architecture and its influence on pop culture, from churches to horror novels and movies.

The most illiterate among them is related, in a way that I am not, to Dante, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Aeschylus, Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Racine; the cathedral at Chartres says something ... less ...

Around 1.5 million people visit Notre-Dame de Chartres each ... elaborate stained glass windows, but while they’re undoubtedly impressive and well-preserved, this cathedral isn’t the only ...

Overwhelmed by a surge in participants, organizers of the traditional Pentecost pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres were forced ...

washed with rainbow hues from the famous stained glass of the rose windows above. One thing seemed very different: I could see. On a previous visit I remember the cathedral as deeply gloomy.

But the island’s most famous landmark is the Cathedral of Notre-Dame ... Its Gothic architecture, stained-glass rose windows, flying buttresses and detailed stone carvings have made it ...

The Premiere Suite has a spacious private terrace overlooking the garden and a soaking tub under the monumental rose window that looks onto the chapel. Many of the rooms were carved out of the ...

Munch made several sketches of Gothic cathedrals and their rose windows, which allow divine sunlight to flood into an otherwise austere, dark space. The exhibition links his interest in these ...

Roger Hiorns’ found objects (everything from car engines to models of Chartres cathedral) encrusted in blue copper sulphate crystals recall his best-known work, Seizure, in which a London ...