Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2024
This representation of Noah’s Ark at Chartres (built between 1194 and 1220) imagines the ark as a bridge across the waters. The boat fully fills the frame so that the ship’s structure resembles a stone bridge, very similar to the extant Romanesque bridge that crosses the Danube at Regensburg. The rainbow of the Covenant shines down onto the ark from the heavens, visually serving as a kind of covering for the ship, whose hull bears a striking resemblance to the low riverine ships favored in earlier centuries by the Vikings.
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