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	Notre-Dame of Laon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cathedral of Notre-Dame of Laon is one of the most important examples of Gothic architecture of the 12th and 13th centuries, ranking with the cathedrals of Saint-Étienne of Sens and Notre Dame of Paris.
		The former cathedral burned in the communal insurrection, 1112, occasioned by the revocation of the commune's charter.
		The cathedral has stained glass of the 13th century and a chancel screen of the 18th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Notre-Dame_of_Laon (275 words)

	Laon - LoveToKnow Watches
		The cathedral of Laon (see Architecture, Romanesque and Gothic Architecture in France) is one of the most important creations of the art of the 12th and 13th centuries.
		Laon is the seat of a prefect and a court of assizes, and possesses a tribunal of first instance, a lycee for boys, a college for girls, a school of agriculture and training colleges.
		Thenceforward Laon was one of the principal towns of the kingdom of the Franks, and the possession of it was often disputed.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Laon (1124 words)

	Laon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laon is a city and commune of France, préfecture (capital) of the Aisne département.
		The most important of these is the cathedral Notre-Dame of Laon, dating mostly from the 12th and 13th centuries.
		Laon is twinned with the city of Winchester in England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laon (825 words)

	Soissons
		He arranged the cartularium of the church of Laon, and was commissioned by Gregory IX to settle the dispute between the chapter and Enguerrand de Coucy.
		After investigation Canon Bauxin concludes that the cathedral of Laon, as it exists, is not the one consecrated in 1114 and visited by Innocent II in 1132; that was the restored ancient Romanesque building; the present one was built 1150-1225.
		Louyis d'Outremer (936), Robert the Pious (996), Philip I (1959) were anointed in Notre Dame de Laon; in the twelfth century Hermann, Abbot of St. Martin's of Tournai, wrote a volume on the miracles of Notre Dame of Laon.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/soissons.html (1494 words)

	Cathedrals 5: Laon - early gothic \| France zone at abelard.org
		Laon cathedral sits on a high, steep hump of limestone in the midst of the rolling, northern plain of the French wheat belt.
		Laon is one of the earliest gothic cathedrals, and as such it is transitional in its design.
		At Laon, the buttresses are not fully exposed, as may be seen at their considerable exuberance in Le Mans and Bourges.
	www.abelard.org /france/cathedrals5-laon.php (1534 words)

	Gothic Art And Architecture
		1245) and the choirs and transept of Rochester Cathedral.
		At the technical level Gothic architecture is characterized by the ribbed vault (a vault in which stone ribs carry the vaulted surface), the pointed arch, and the flying buttress (normally a half arch carrying the thrust of a roof or vault across an aisle to an outer pier or buttress).
		cathedral, which was begun in the late 1370s, but the style continued to evolve, the application of tracery panels tending to become denser.
	www.history-world.org /gothic_art_and_architecture.htm (5979 words)

	ARTH 242 lecture 26
		Laon Cathedral, exterior, facade, from south angle, 1160-1240, Laon, France.
		Laon Cathedral, sculpture, west front, central portal, left jamb, figures, 1160-1240, Laon, France.
		Laon Cathedral, exterior, East chapels of N. transept, upper stories, c1180-1190, Laon, France.
	www.arthistory.upenn.edu /fall02/242/242lecture26.html (341 words)

	LAON - Online Information article about LAON
		Conde connect Laon with the Aisne and with Reims.
		history of the commune of Laon is one of the richest and most varied.
		League Laon took the part of the Leaguers, and was taken by See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /KRO_LAP/LAON.html (1680 words)

	Unit V: Gothic Period
		The means of attaining these goals included the hallmarks of the Gothic style: ribbed groin vaults, pointed arches, extensive walls of glass, external buttresses, a symbolic use of "magic" numbers (groupings of 12 columns, 7 radiating chapels, etc.), and a new integration of interior spaces.
		Laon is also more typical of Gothic churches, as a whole, because it is a cathedral ("Bishop's Seat") rather than an abbey church, and it is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
		Amiens Cathedral, with its ornate, filigree external appearance (Slide 25) and its 140' high interior space (Slide 27) was one of the most successful in the quest for ever more verticality.
	infinity.cos.edu /art/strong/module/history2/unit5/gothic (2379 words)

	Medieval Cathedrals - History for Kids!
		For instance, the cathedral of Laon (la-OHN) in northern France lost its bishop when the town got smaller, and now it is only a church.
		The architecture of cathedrals is based on the old Roman basilica.
		Cathedrals were where Christian people in medieval Europe went to pray to God, and also where they took communion and talked to their priests.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/medieval/architecture/cathedral.htm (430 words)

	http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/hst355/sq1/index.html
		Laon at this time was a prosperous cathedral town of perhaps 10-12,000 residents.
		Laon was best known, however, for its cathedral school, whose master, Anselm, attracted ambitious students from all over Europe to sit at his feet and listen to his lessons on and expositions of the scriptures.
		Laon was in many respects a "college town" with a large transient student population, considerable local wealth, and a prominent and prestigious clergy.
	web.pdx.edu /~ott/hst355/sq1 (942 words)

	Photographs by Bob Kolb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lying in a crescent to the north of Paris is the greatest concentration of Gothic cathedrals in the world.
		While maintaining a purity of Gothic style, these French cathedrals still reveal the development of the art form over the medieval centuries.
		Ranging from the four-story elevation of Laon (shown at right), to the purity, loftiness, and grace of Amiens, this small area of France gave birth to one of the greatest achievements of the human spirit.
	www.kolbphoto.com /fcath.htm (98 words)

	Listed Items \| Art History & Archaeology Database \| Columbia University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		France, Laon, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, interior view of the south side of the choir and the south transept, from the crossing
		France, Laon, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, exterior view of the east chapel of the north transept
		France, Laon, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, exterior view of the north transept from the north east
	www.learn.columbia.edu /cgi-bin/dbcourses/item?skip=4420 (238 words)

	The architecture of Notre-Dame of Chartres: the victory over darkness (Chartes, sanctuaire du Monde association)
		This " sexpartite " vault, which is present in the cathedral of Laon or Notre-Dame of Paris, made the stronger piles, which received the diagonal ribs and the relieving arches separating the spans, alternate all along the naves, and the weaker piles loaded with only intermediary ribs.
		They had at best, in Laon as in Paris, deceived the eye by establishing the distorted balance of strong unequally charged columns, of which the thrust is passed onto pillars with small columns of unequal resistance along the side aisles.
		On the west, while the daring ideas are still at their beginning stages, the wall of the renovated façade from the old cathedral of Fulbert is still exceedingly present.
	www.chartres-csm.org /us_fixe/cathedrale/archi.html (1609 words)

	Britannica.com
		The cathedral's association with the Virgin Mary (the supposed veil of the Virgin is kept in the cathedral treasury) made it the destination of pilgrims in the Middle Ages.
		The oldest parts of the cathedral are its crypt and the west portal, or Royal Portal, which are remnants of a Romanesque church that was mostly destroyed by fire in 1194.
		The present cathedral was constructed on the foundations of the earlier church and consecrated in 1260.
	editor-writer.com /chartres.html (444 words)

	Laon
		LAON, a town of northern France, capital of the department of Aisne, 87 mNE of Paris on...
		Cathedral of Notre-Dame at Laon, 130km northwest from Paris, has one of the great early Gothic...
		Laon is the "flagship" church of the Northern School of Early Gothic.
	refinance-money.loansresource.com /laon.htm (255 words)

	laon
		Laon Museums: Museums Laon, Northern France Laon musemsif you were planning your visit to or a local looking for different to do, here are cheapest attractions in and around Laon!
		Home > France > Northern France picrdy > Laon > Sights & > Museums muee d'Art et d'archelogie that museum is founded in 1861 housed the small collection until 1937, when over 1,700 artifacts found their way to museum.
		the exteriors of the bargain Gothic cathedrals of later twelfth early thirteenth century are in perfect harmony with interiors at least in form in which they were for hardly any are executed completely.
	www.onloans.net /laon.htm (481 words)

	The Cathedral of Laon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The exteriors of the Gothic cathedrals of the later twelfth and the early thirteenth century were in perfect harmony with the interiors - at least in the form in which they were planned; for hardly any were executed completely.
		Laon is the only one (except for Tournai in Southern Belgium) that can give a true idea of what a French cathedral was intended to look like.
		The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Laon (France), ca.1157-1205.
	www.orgel.com /laon.html (150 words)

	Laon, Rental Homes of France :: Thibault Villa
		Laon is a beautiful French town with creperies, huge ramparts and a view that goes for miles.
		Laon is overlooked by most tourists and even the French, but it's well worth visiting.
		Architecture buffs will appreciate the famous town cathedral (see photos here) which is considered the great transitional cathedral between Romanesque architecture and Gothic.
	www.peachmountain.com /france/toSeeDoLaon.asp (179 words)

	laon cathedral
		SUBJECT: architecture, cathedral - Laon Cathedral Jump to Reposition image Go to: Index Checklists Thumbnails © 2000 George Eastman House, NY contents of that site, including all images text, were for personal, educational, non-commercial only.
		Laon is a beautiful French with crepries, huge ramparts a view goes for miles.
		it had all been restored now, of Laon is overlooked by most even the rebate French, but it is well worth visiting.
	www.onloans.net /laoncathedral.htm (185 words)

	Education World® - Arts & Humanities : Design : Architecture : Buildings : Cathedrals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)*
		Cathedral of Laon Expandable images of this cathedral built ca.11571205, with a brief quotation from Nikolaus Pevsner.
		Cathedral of St. Nikolaus, Stendal, Germany Photograph and chronology of the Gothic cathedral in former East Germany, with its two slender spires.
		Cathedrals of Britain The Pilgrims Association provides a guide to churches, cathedrals and abbeys in the UK and Ireland.
	db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=10381 (606 words)

	Gothic Arch. as Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chartres Cathedral, interior, begun 1194 [ 081 nave interior; 084 side aisle view; 116 detail clerestory, triforium, and springing of rib vaults]; figs.
		Amiens Cathedral, begun 1220, completed about 1275 [ 273 transverse section through choir; 272 interior nave elevation; 275 aerial view; 274 facade view today]; figs.
		Paris, Cathedral of Notre Dame, interior, begun 1163; facade, begun 1200.
	www.pitt.edu /~tokerism/0040/syl/src1011.html (129 words)

	GRAMMAR AS TEACHER
		Whether the Grammars of the Cathedrals of Sens (12/13th c.) and Auxerre (13th c., 2d half) were of the tough or tender types is difficult to ascertain.
		She was part of an elaborate sculptural program for the pulpit of the Pisa Cathedral in which the city of Pisa is personified as a mother who nourishes her citizens economically and politically and Ecclesia, i.e., Church, who is crowned, nourishes them spiritually.
		Another sort of exception occurs in choir stall carvings in the Cathedral of Ulm, where busts of several figures traditionally chosen as exponents of the liberal arts are unaccompanied by personifications or students.
	www.education.umn.edu /EdPA/iconics/lecture_hall/grammar.htm (5009 words)

	Tower Legends: The Ox That Helped
		As far as his old eyes could see were sunny vineyards with giant trees beyond--trees that had been part of the forest of St. Gobain when Charlemagne was crowned king of the Franks.
		Grand-père Jean's quiet hands rested on his cane as he tranquilly gazed at the Cathedral towers which were so still, so still, against the sky.
		It had had to fight against the invaders, and this, too, though Laon was one of the three great fortresses.
	www.sacred-texts.com /etc/tl/tl09.htm (1219 words)

	Laon - The treasures of a medieval city - The largest protected area in France - Regional Council of Picardy
		Laon - The treasures of a medieval city - The largest protected area in France - Regional Council of Picardy
		A cathedral, a Bishop’s Palace, Abbeys, Hôtels Dieu (former hospitals), ramparts...The town is home to around 80 historic monuments.
		The town of Laon is the largest protected area in France.
	www.cr-picardie.fr /en/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=154 (172 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The two cities have much in common: spectacular cathedrals; former capitals, populations of around 30,000; a broad range of cultural activities and the wish to preserve the best of the old city while developing a modern economy.
		The pattern for the annual official visits is for Laon to come to Winchester in odd numbered years while we go to Laon in even years.
		The city was the capital of the ancient Carolingian Kingdom and its cathedral of Notre Dame is one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in France.
	www.hants.gov.uk /laon-twinning (568 words)

	Laon Cathedral - Laon, France
		The Cathedral of Laon (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon), in the Picardy region of France, dates to the 12th century.
		Laon Cathedral is known for its imposing towers, its beautiful Gothic architecture, and its role as a major stop on the medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago.
		The cathedral of Laon has six towers, four of which are complete.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /france/laon-cathedral.htm (496 words)

	The Age of Cathedrals
		Senlis Cathedral, west facade, tympanum with Coronation of the Virgin: ca.
		Laon Cathedral, reconstruction of original project: begun ca.
		Laon Cathedral, interior of north transept: later 12th cantury
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/mtdavis/Gothic/cathedrals.html (606 words)

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		National Cathedral was built over 100 years ago and resides in an extremely populated part of Washington D.C. The general plan of the cathedral like the Laon Cathedral in France, is shaped in an axial cross plan.
		Like many early cathedrals the National Cathedral employs the use of the Gothic Rib Vaults, which are a way of support for the ceiling (Kleiner and Mamiya 382).
		Gardner's text exemplifies another consistency in decoration of the early cathedrals in relation to the National Cathedral with use of lancets, which are "tall narrow widows ending in pointed arches (383)".
	mason.gmu.edu /~mwallac2/christian.html (924 words)

	Links
		The Laon cathedral on a very good site dedicated to the cathedrals of Picardy.
		Other wonderful photos of the Laon Cathedral, and more, on the Alain Mengus website.
		Many of those who came on the former Laon AF Base also went on the RAF Upper-Heyford base.
	www.laonnois.com /us/links_us.htm (468 words)

	French Adventures
		Surrounding the cathedral, a masterpiece of gothic art, stands the Episcopal Palace (XIIth to XVIIth century), the treasure house (XVIth century), the cloister and its outbuildings (XIIth century), as well as the large houses of the Canons.
		Thanks to the speed with which it was built and to the technical developments of its day, Notre Dame cathedral in Amiens displays a rare homogeneity of style.
		On the south side of the cathedral, supported by the Gallo-Roman ramparts, is the Episcopal Palace which houses a converted crypt.
	www.frenchadventures.com /escorted3daycathedraltour.html (682 words)

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