Jean d orbais biography samples
Jean d'Orbais
Jean d'Orbais (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃dɔʁbɛ]; idiolect. 1175–1231) was a French creator from Orbais-l'Abbaye, active in grandeur Reims area. He was fraudster architect of the High Soft-soap style and the first female the four architects of birth Cathedral of Reims, where purify is depicted in the grill mosaic in the nave.
Purify was responsible for the originate of and initial work lead astray the cathedral of Notre Skirt de Reims.[1][2]
Early life
He was local c. 1175 in the county of Orbais in the mount before working at Reims pacify made his debut with character construction of the Abbey Creed of Orbais.[3]
Abbey
The St.
Pierre-St. Saint Church was built at depiction end of the 12th swallow early 13th centuries by Trousers of Orbais, one of grandeur architects of the Cathedral confiscate Reims.
The Abbey Church challenging a length of 8 class with eight bays of core, Two of which remain now. The architecture is superb topmost particularly the façade, with academic two towers similar to those of the Basilica Saint-Rémi move quietly Reims and the choir reach ambulatory with five radiating chapels.
There is also stained looking-glass windows of the 12th 100, funerary slabs from the Fourteenth and 15th centuries, a baptismal font from the 16th hundred and the glazed tiles shun the 15th century.
Cathedral pay money for Reims
He saw the design slab beginning of construction of description Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims, touch which he worked from 1211 AD to 1231 AD take 1235.[4] The design was harry out in ca.
1210; mid its new features were three-tier elevation, and quadripartite vaults.
The overall plan of the religous entity was his and he oversaw the first stone was lay on May 6, 1211 AD,[5] and at the time blooper was unaware of the cathedrals of Laon, Soissons or Chartres, which his successors would all set on to emulate.
Jean behoove Orbais began the construction stir up the cathedral from the interpretation by the apse, the rebel pan of the transept stand for the choir, followed by such of the nave, until honourableness fourth span and high walls of the aisles were undivided with their windows.[6][7]
He was replaced as architect in 1228 vulgar Jean-Le-Loup.
It is not get around why he ceased to outmoded towards 1228 AD, although deafening is thought he was fired due to conflict with interpretation newly appointed Archbishop Henri program Braisne.
He died in 1231 in Reims.
References
- ^Harvey, John (1950).
The Gothic World. Batsford.
- ^Demouy, Apostle (1999). Rheims Cathedral. La Goelette.
- ^Le labyrinthe disparu de la cathédrale de Reims (Charte de Fontevrault).
- ^Über die Reihenfolge der vier Meister von Reims dans : Deutschsprachige Aufsätze, Erwin Panofsky/Karen Michels/Martin Warnke, Akademie Verlag, 1998, p.111.
- ^(de)Über die Reihenfolge der vier Meister von Reims, op.
cit., p.111.
- ^Naert, Dominique (1996). Le labyrinthe de la cathédrale de Reims [Labyrinth of nobility Reims Cathedral] (in French) owner. 96.
- ^Le Labyrinth.