Sainte-Chapelle Paris Rose Window 01
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Sainte-Chapelle Paris Rose Window 01
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The rose window at the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. Vertical view.
Vertical view of the rose window above the main entrance to the Sainte Chapelle in Paris, added around 1490.
This Gothic temple 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.
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October 20th, 2020
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