Sainte-Chapelle Lower Chapel Paris 03 Photograph by Weston Westmoreland

Sainte-Chapelle Lower Chapel Paris 03

by Weston Westmoreland

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Title

Sainte-Chapelle Lower Chapel Paris 03

Artist

Weston Westmoreland

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

Sainte-Chapelle Lower Chapel, Paris. First Horizontal crop.

Horizontal view of the altar of the Lower Chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. The lower chapel served as parish church for all the inhabitants of the palace, which was the seat of government. As the weight of the higher chapel sits squarely on top of this one, its windows are small and its ceiling is low. The atmosphere of the lower chapel is contrastedly different to that of the airy and luminous one above. This is a more intimate chapel, much smaller, and intimate. A wonderful temple on its own right.

The chapel is too low to be spanned by a single vault and the space is divided into a nave and side aisles, all vaulted at the same height. The unusual proportions of the side aisles require the horizontal struts which take the thrust of the main vault, which is probably unique in Gothic architecture.

The Sainte-Chapelle was originally conceived as a giant reliquary to hold the Holly Crown of Thorns that Louis IX bought from the Emperor of Constantinople in , land which was later hosted in Notre-Dame until the 2019 fire, which it survived.

The Saint Chapel is surrounded and somehow engulfed by other structures of the Palais de Justice, the former medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine.

The chapel was built in just six years and is considered the highest achievement of the Rayonnant Gothic. Louis I X paid for the Crown of Thorns four times what he paid for the Chapel.

Along with the Conciergerie, the Sainte Chapelle is one of the earliest surviving buildings of the Capetian royal palace on the Île de la Cité. Although damaged during the French Revolution and restored in the 19th century, it has one of the most extensive 13th-century stained glass collections anywhere in the world.

As for Paris... what can one say about the City of Light that has not already been said...?

More views of Paris one copy-paste away in my Gallery at http://westonwestmoreland.com/collections/paris

Weston Westmoreland.