# South Rose Window [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOTHIC GLASS PAINTER, French]() - Date: 1201-1250 - Technique: Stained glass window ## Commentary Chartres Cathedral contains 176 stained-glass windows, the feature for which it may be best known. Like the sculpture, the stained glass was intended to be educational. The five windows of the choir hemicycle \(a semicircular arrangement\) relate in various ways to the Virgin Mary. The rose window in the north transept portrays figures from the Old Testament. The south transept, which is representative of the New Testament, has a rose window depicting the Apocalypse. The picture shows the south rose window of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Chartres. The Cathedral was rebuilt after a fire occurred in 1194. ## Related artworks - [A Nobleman]() - [Angel Playing the Lyre]() - [Annunciation]() - [Charlemagne]() - [Charlemagne's Battle]() - [Charlemagne's Dream]() - [Charles VI]() - [Choir clerestory]() - [Departure of the Prodigal Son]() - [Esther Window \(detail\)]() - [Jacques Coeur Window]() - [Miracles of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()