The Chartres Cathedral in France has long been a crowd favorite, drawing millions of Catholic pilgrims and art lovers every year who come to bask in the famous blue glow of its 13th-century stained ...

An intensive restoration of France's Chartres Cathedral that replicates the interior's original colors and patterns has earned a polemical rebuke from the critic Martin Filler, who charged that the ...

CHARTRES, France (AFP) - An unholy row has broken out over the restoration of France's mediaeval landmark, Chartres Cathedral. State-funded work to return the interior of the towering 13th-century ...

About 80 kilometers southwest of Paris stands the city of Chartres, one of whose main cultural attractions is its Gothic cathedral built between 1194 and 1220. It was built in the same place where ...

The controversial restoration of the interiors of a sacrosanct cathedral elicits a call to action. Among modern architects, Chartres Cathedral, largely built in the first half of the 13th century, ...

CHARTRES, France - An unholy row has broken out over the restoration of France's medieval landmark, Chartres Cathedral. State-funded work to return the interior of the towering 13th-century cathedral ...

A bid to lighten the interior of France's famed Chartres Cathedral to its original creamy white hues has sparked an unholy row, with experts as far away as America claiming it is a “cultural disaster” ...

Partly built starting in 1145, and then reconstructed over a 26-year period after the fire of 1194, Chartres Cathedral marks the high point of French Gothic art. The vast nave, in pure ogival style, ...