The choir screen in the ambulatory is undoubtedly one of the most admired parts of Chartres Cathedral, with its perfectly rendered historiated groups, and its fine, graceful ornamentation, resembling stone lace, composed of columns and needles, scrolls and arabesques. It’s an extraordinary monumental sculptural ensemble, begun in the early 16th century and completed in the early 18th. Numerous sculptors, the best of their time, collaborated for two hundred years to the glorification of the Virgin Mary and her role in the history of salvation. It is exceptional and unique, and bears witness to the quality and evolution of the art of sculpture in France.
Félicité Schuler-Lagier
Medievalist, conference interpreter
Graduated in language sciences from the University of Heidelberg, conference interpreter, specialist in medieval iconography and the art of stained glass. She has been teaching at the Centre international du Vitrail since 2001 and welcomes multi-national groups and children’s classes for workshops and educational tours.
Through teaching and multilingual cultural mediation, she works with a wide range of audiences to understand the cathedral and its builders’ crafts from a variety of cultural and historical perspectives: a witness to history, a monument to the world’s artistic and architectural heritage, a high place for spirituality, an invitation to discover works of art in their relationship to cultural history and the sacred.
