THE SOUTH PORCH OF CHARTRES CATHEDRAL

The book examines the 96 haut-reliefs on the four piers of the cathedral's south porch.They reveal a unique phenomenon of thirteenth-century Gothic sculpture. It offers a concise discussion of the 96 southern reliefs at Chartres, their position in the vast artistic creation of the cathedral, their characterizations, and their historical, social, stylistic and iconographical contexts.