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Visions of Mary: Art, Devotion, and Beauty at Chartres Cathedral (Mount Tabor Books)

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Through image and word, creator and photographer Jill Geoffrion unfolds the the story of Mary at Chartres on the pages of this book. Geoffrion offers a unique visual and meditative journey through Chartres Cathedral on this newest addition to the Mount Tabor Books series. Showing and explaining the most engaging images of Mary created on this location over the past eight centuries, Jill Geoffrion gently introduces the reader to the depth and breadth of the story of Mary on the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres. Included are over seventy-five images of the Virgin of Chartres which have been recently restored in addition to works of sculpture, painting and liturgical items. Readers will discover an architectural marvel, a stunning showcase for the most complete twelfth and thirteenth century number of stained glass on this planet, with many images of Mary as Jesus’s mother, in response to biblical stories such as the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Presentation on the Temple, and Flight to Egypt.

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