Chartres Cathedral

Architecture · 1194–1220 · Chartres · Europe

Keeps nearly all its 13th-century glass — over 150 windows of famous 'Chartres blue'

Style: Gothic — Pointed vaults, flying buttresses and stained glass: the wall dissolves into coloured light
Century: 12th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

c. 1190 Bayon · Khmer art of Angkor · Angkor Thom, Cambodia
1186 Ta Prohm · Khmer art of Angkor · Angkor, Cambodia
c. 1185 The Tale of Igor's Campaign · Southern Rus (Chernihiv or Kyiv)
1184–1198 Giralda — Ahmad ibn Baso · Moorish style (al-Andalus) · Seville
c. 1170 Gita Govinda — Jayadeva · Probably Puri, Odisha
1165 Church of the Intercession on the Nerl · Pre-Mongol architecture of Rus · Bogolyubovo, near Vladimir
1194–1197 Cathedral of Saint Demetrius, Vladimir · Pre-Mongol architecture of Rus · Vladimir
c. 1170 Ban Dainagon Ekotoba — attributed to Tokiwa Mitsunaga · Yamato-e, Heian Japanese painting · Kyoto