Jean (or Jehan) de Chelles (working 1258–1265) was a master

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and

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who was one of the

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s at the Cathedral of

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. On the exterior wall of the south transept a stone plaque is signed ''Johanne Magistro'' and dated February 1257, documenting the initiation of alterations to the transept and its portal. On his death in 1265, he was succeeded by Master

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. Jean de Chelles is credited with the south end of the

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of Nôtre Dame de Paris, the portal of the

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and its rose window, and the portail Saint Etienne. He is supposed to have worked with Pierre de Montreuil on the Cathedral of Saint Julien,

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. A Jean de Chelles was working on the

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in 1265, under the direction of Raymond du Temple. He is sometimes thought to have worked on the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, but the art historian,

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, believes this to have actually been created by Thomas Cormont, who had previously worked at Amiens. The

Pierre de Chelles Pierre de Chelles was a French architect from the late 13th and early 14th centuries. He was one of the architects of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral. He completed the choir began in 1300, the high flying buttresses above the apse, and the bui ...

, ''Maître de l'Œuvre de la cathédrale de Paris'', who, with others, inspected the vaults and other work at

Chartres cathedral Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (french: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), is a Roman Catholic church in Chartres, France, about southwest of Paris, and is the seat of the Bishop of Chartres. Mostly con ...

in an official capacity, 9 September 1316, may have been a son or nephew, succeeding him at Notre-Dame de Paris.Sturgus 1901, ''s.v.'' "Chelles, Pierre de".

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13th-century French architects Sculptors from Paris French male sculptors 1265 deaths Gothic architects Year of birth unknown Stonemasons French ecclesiastical architects 1258 births {{France-sculptor-stub