# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ARCHITECT, French]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The choir of the priory church of Saint-Thibault-en-Auxois is a highly innovative work. It was the result of a building program that from about 1260 onward provided a new choir for the nave and transept, which had been built around 1200. The work began with the construction of a costly portal, complete with carved statues, on the north transept, which was seen as the focal point for a pilgrimage that had yet to be established. After the building of two side chapels in the choir in the 1290, a new chevet was begun that became a showpiece of the 'style rayonnant.' It is a representative type of chevet frequently chosen in Gothic, but the obligatory division into ground floor, triforium, and clerestory is re-interpreted here with the greatest ingenuity. Thanks to the blind arcading under the triforium, the ground floor consists of two areas. Moreover, it is treated like the nave of a basilica-type Rayonnant building, with the tracery of the blind arches below and the windows above being linked. The photo shows the choir. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Bird's eye view]() - [Burial lantern]() - [Castle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()