Chapter 9 Gallery

West façade, Basilica of Saint Denis, France

Original building was Carolingian (8th c.); major rebuilding in Gothic style under Abbot Suger(12th c.)

The Basilica of St Denis, North transept Rose window, subject: The Creation, with God at the centre, the six days of Creation, the Zodiac representing the order of the heavens, the labours representing the order of the earth, Adam and Eve eating the fruit and being expelled from Eden.
The Basilica of St Denis, Tympanum and lintel of the central portal, Last Judgment 
Basilica of St Denis, France : portal of the north transept, tympanum and archivolt. The tympanum depicts the beheading of Saint Denis.
St Denis, interior, the Choir

Choir: the part of a church near the altar, reserved for the clergy and choir, and typically separated from the nave by steps or a screen.

Architectural notes: the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, the ambulatory with radiating chapels, the clustered columns supporting ribs springing in different directions and the flying buttresses which enabled the insertion of large clerestory windows.

Laon Cathedral, Picardy, France, Gothic, 12th-13th c.
Nave in four tiers, with clerestories (high windows), triforium (a shallow arched gallery within the thickness of the inner wall above a nave), sexpartite vaulting (a rib vault divided into six bays by two diagonal ribs and three transverse ribs)
Notre-Dame de Paris (Gothic cathedral), south facade, view from the Seine River
The coronation of Napoleon I on 2 December 1804 at Notre-Dame in an 1807 painting by Jacques-Louis David

Joséphine kneels before Napoléon during his coronation at Notre Dame. Behind him sits pope Pius VII.
Notre-Dame, Gargoyle
Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Saint Francis of Assisi, 1235
Bay 30a - Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere

Thanks to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons for illustrations and some descriptions.