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By Numbering Each Panel Before Packing Them in Chartres in 1939, the Teams Literally Turned Eight Centuries of Glass Into a Puzzle that It Took Years to Close
Between August and September 1939, the Chartres teams accomplished the unthinkable: completely dismantled the stained glass windows of a cathedral in less than two weeks. Eight centuries of colorful light, 172 biblical bays and 900 carefully numbered cases of glass. A giant puzzle that only closed in 1948. More
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Between August and September 1939, the Chartres teams accomplished the unthinkable: completely dismantled the stained glass windows of a cathedral in less than two weeks. Eight centuries of colorful light, 172 biblical bays and 900 carefully numbered cases of glass. A giant puzzle that only closed in 1948. More