Close Looking
Scroll-driven visual essays that invite you to look more carefully.
Noah's Ark at Chartres
Reading a medieval stained glass window, panel by panel
The Noah window at Chartres Cathedral tells the biblical story of the Flood across dozens of small panels. Let's start at the bottom, as a medieval viewer would have done, and as we do today - and read up to understand the story of Noah's Ark.
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Chartres North Rose Window, A Close Reading
Finding depth in a single photograph
A close-looking experience demonstrating how a landscape reveals its layers under focused attention.
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