History Of The Sainte Chapelle

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The Sainte-Chapelle

Robin Shilstone
Introduction To Art History I, ARH2050 Section 1
Professor Will Adams
April 22, 2014

The Sainte Chapelle sparkles like a rare jewel that has magnificent architecture and decoration; the stain glass windows seem to be inside of a jewel case. The many jewels seem to change color every hour with the sunlight rays bouncing back and forth. “The founder, King Louis IX, the future St. Louis, who had it built to house the Holy Relics of the Passion, today dispersed” (Finance 1). The spire has statues of Christ’s apostles at the base of the spire and has angles decorated above the apostles. The Sainte Chapelle, the lower chapel was devoted to the Virgin Mary, and reserved for the administration staff. The upper chapel was reserved for the King and his family; the religious relics connected to Jesus Christ were kept in the upper chapel. In 1690, the flood damaged the lower chapel, and the fire in 1776 caused more damage, then the Revolution further damaged the Sainte Chapelle. The restoration started around 1840 and was completed in the middle of the nineteenth century to exhibit the original thirteen-century medieval architecture. King Louis IX founded the Sainte Chapelle along with the Spire to hold the religious relics connected to Jesus Christ, the lower chapel was for the palace staff, and the upper chapel was reserved for the king.
Furthermore, Louis IX was crowned King in 1226 at the age of twelve years old, and his mother ensured the kingdom until the year 1234, when he married. In 1239, Louis IX bought the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople that Jesus Christ wore at the Crusfixation. “Louis IX bought a fragment of the True Cross from Baudoin II as well...

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... medieval period, and the beauty and the architectural is still admired centuries later.
Cited Page:
Leniaud, Jean-Michel and Francoise Perrot. The Sainte Chapelle. Paris: Centre des monuments nationaux, 2007.

Finance, Laurence de. The Sainte-Chapelle. Paris: Centre des monuments nationaux, 2001.

Brew, Charl Anne. “The language Of Stained-Glass Windows.” Arts & Activities, Oct. 2010: 30. Academic OneFile.

Weisse, Daniel H. “Architectural symbolism and the decoration of the Ste.-Chapelle.” The Art Bulletin 77.2 (1995):308. Academic OneFile.

Papanicolaou, Linda Morey. “Stained Glass from the Cathedral of Tours: The Impact of the Sainte-Chapelle in the 1240’s.” Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 15, (1980): pp. 53-66.

Cohen, Merdith. “An Indulgence for the Visitor: The Public at the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris.” Speculum, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Oct., 2008): pp. 840-883.

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