Previous Grants
The Servane de Layre-Mathéus Fund for Research on Chartres Cathedral
The American Friends of Chartres has established a special fund honoring the memory of Servane de Layre-Mathéus (1939-2020), co-founder of Chartres–Sanctuaire du Monde, of the Centre International du Vitrail, and and the driving force for the creation of American Friends of Chartres. Servane dedicated much of her life to the preservation of Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral, and to the pursuit and transmission of knowledge of medieval art, culture, and spirituality. In recognition of her contributions, she was made chevalier of the Légion d’honneur, officier des Arts et des Lettres, and officier de l’ordre national du Mérite. The fund is intended to support research that furthers her work.
Shelley Williams
2022 Recipient: Shelley Williams, recipient of the Dietlinde Hamburger grant. American PhD student at Oxford University, England. Ms. Williams holds an undergraduate degree in art history from Brigham Young University, Utah.
Research
Ms Williams’s research brings together medieval English literature and art history. She examined the zodiac images on the western portals and north porch of Notre-Dame de Chartres in order to consider how a medieval traveler would have seen them, and how that experience might have played out in the writing of Geoffrey Chaucer in particular. She proposes a new reading of the arrangement of the sculpture representing zodiac signs and Labors of the Months on the western portal, something that art historians have puzzled over for many years.
Elias Feitosa de Amorin, Jr.
2023: Elias Feitosa de Amorin, Jr. Brazilian PhD student at the Sorbonne, Paris, France. Mr. Feitosa de Amorim Jr holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in art history from the University of Campinas, Brazil.
Research
Mr. Feitosa de Amorim Jr examines the Marian imagery and liturgy of Chartres as the product of theological debates and artistic exchanges over time from the Byzantine era to the 13th century and across the Christian world. His research focuses on the 12th– and 13th-century stained glass at Notre-Dame de Chartres, and draws from the archives held in Chartres, Orléans and Paris.
restore and preserve the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres
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