TimeToast Virtual Museum

West facade, Chartes Cathedral, France (1134-1220)

Jan 1, 1134

"Chartres Cathedral has housed the tunic of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Sancta Camisia"

Moses window, Abbey Church od Saint-Denis (1140-44)

Jan 1, 1140

"This highly symbolic window is described by Suger. Panofsky calls it the "anagogical Widow" ,while Grodecki calls it the "Allegories of Saint Paul" window. Only two of its panels contain twelfth century glass.

Jamb statues, west portal, Chartres Cathedral. (1145-75)

Jan 1, 1145

"Built as one of the last parts of the Romanesque Church of Chartres, the west portals, or so-called Royal Portals, are one of the few surviving parts of the earlier church incorporated into the High Gothic Church constructed after the devastating fire of 1194."

The Tree of Jesse window, Chartres Cathedral (1150-70)

Jan 1, 1150

"Some Jesse Windows include the image of a dove descending to represent the coming of the Holy Spirit and in other cases seven doves or rays of light are shown to represent the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit described by St Paul."

Jacobello dalle Masegne and Pier Paolo dalle Masegne. (1200)

Jan 1, 1200

"Law students, relief sculpture on tomb of a law professor at the University of Bologna."

Rose window and lancets, north transept, Chartres (1210-30)

Jan 1, 1210

"These were called rose windows as the panes of glass radiated outwards in a circular pattern like a rose, rose windows are found in most Gothic Cathedrals."

Flying buttresses, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris, France (1211-90)

Jan 1, 1211

"Cathedral was reverted to the invented cults of revolutionaries and finally was used as a warehouse for the food."

Jamb Statues, south transept portal, Chartres Cathedral. (1215-30)

Jan 1, 1215

"Jamb figures of Confessors with St. Theodore on the right. "

Annunciation and Visitation - Reims Cathedral (1230-33)

Jan 1, 1230

"The two figures on the left depict the annunciation with Gabriel looking at the Virgin Mary, the figures on the right represent the visitation of Mary to Saint Elizabeth."

Interior, Upper Chapel, Sainte-Chapelle (1243-48)

Jan 1, 1243

"Sainte Chapelle was constructed to house these relics as the royal chapel as part of the palace. The Sainte-Chapelle Chapel was designed as a reliquary for the Crown of Thorns."

The Madonna in Majesty (Maestà) (1285-86)

Jan 1, 1285

"The iconography is frequent in medieval painting and represents the Madonna enthroned with Child and angels, a pattern commonly said Maestà as shows the Virgin as Queen of Paradise."

Duccio di Buoninsegna, fr

Jan 1, 1308

"This painting, in fact, consecrated, does not illustrate or humanizes it divinizes motherhood."

Giotto di Bondone, Madonna Enthrones with Saints and Angels (1310)

Jan 1, 1310

"This art was commissioned by an obscure religious order called the Humiliati, who were known for their humble, mendicant lifestyle."

Simone Martini - Maestà for the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena (1311-17)

Jan 1, 1311

"Simone painted his Maestà for the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, as the ideal of the good and just government. This is the oldest painting that can be safely attributed to him."

Ambrogio lorenzetti: Allegory of good government (1338-39)

Jan 1, 1338

"Painted due to the growing town's success."

Anonymous Flemish architecturesBruges Town Hall (center), (1376-1402)

Jan 1, 1376

"Houses administration, legal courts, different offices, spaces for social gatherings, storage rooms space dedicated for the proper administration of the city."

Wife of Bath, from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (1400-05)

Jan 1, 1400

"This image is from the earliest complete surviving text of Chaucer's work, which contains 23 portraits of the storytellers."

Limbourg Brothers, January: The Feast of the Duke of Berry (1415)

Jan 1, 1415

"After three centuries in obscurity, the Très Riches Heures gained wide recognition in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, despite having only very limited public exposure at the Musée Condé."

Très Riches Heures du Duc de BerryTrès Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1415)

Jan 1, 1415

"In the calender for July, a woman in this same bluedess and black hat is depicted shearing what may well be these same sheep."

Andrea del Castagno, Francesco Petrarca (1450)

Jan 1, 1450

"The picture shows one of the three Tuscan poets represented in the cycle.Francesco Petrarca was an Italian scholar, poet, and Humanist whose poems addressed to Laura, an idealized beloved, contributed to the Renaissance flowering of lyric poetry."