History of Architecture
Handout 9

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Early Gothic Architecture

*Abbey Church of St. Denis, western narthex and choir added by the Abbot Suger in 1137-1144

*Chartres, Notre Dame
West portal of an earlier church c. 1150 survives

*Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, c. 1230

Laon, Notre Dame
Begun in the late 1150s, finished 1190-1215
Drawings of the towers by Villard de Honnecourt

*Paris, Notre Dame
Begun under Bishop Maurice-de Sully, 1163, completed by the 1190s
Nave remodelled after the model of Chartres, 1225


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