Stained glass

updates to the cathedral which add the addition support also allowed for the inclusion of the extra and larger stained glass windows which he belied would educate the “simple folk” so they would know what the church thought they should believe. His view was that the more opulent and grandiose the design, brought about by the verticality and preponderance of light though the multitude of stained glass would draw additional worshippers whose soul would be elevated “to the spiritual…

Cathedrale de Notre Dame de Chartres has housed the tunic of the Blessed Virgin since 876. The Chartres communicates a message through the imagery of good and bad found throughout the church. Some symbolism found in the Cathedral are the light-stained glass; this makes you look toward the “light” and away from the “darkness”, it also allowed the church to be light-filled with colors which makes an breathtaking experience while standing in this large church. The vertical standing Cathedral makes…

to build the structure. There is not a single signature in the cathedral’s one hundred and seventy-six stained glass windows, or on any of the four thousand exterior sculptures. The building is completely anonymous. But the legacy of these anonymous builders…

Inside, some of the accessories adorning the church are expensive but not all bought by the church. These artifacts and art pieces were not grandiose splurges, but rather they have been accumulated over the course of one hundred years. The stained glass windows depict not only the frightening foretelling of what could be for those who shun God, but they also show His mercy and love. Sunlight shines through them as rays of light beaming down from heaven, illuminating us and the basic ideas we…

It was made out of limestone and stained glass. The building, while having two distinct spires from different periods, reflects many distinct Gothic details, including a lot of natural light, flying buttresses, ribbed vaulting, round rose window, portal, and tympanum. The cathedral is clearly…

Children’s Museum Field Experience 1. “Seeing the Light” stained glass window display, located in the architectural section of the Children’s Museum, allows students to use the cling shapes to create their own stain glass window. A stain glass window would be an excellent form of visual art to use to teach geometric shapes and polygons. Samples of stain glass windows created from geometric shapes can be displayed on a projector for students to pick out squares, rhombuses, rectangles, triangles…

“In the design of the building itself it is often difficult to draw a line between practical necessity and deliberate intention, since Iktinos seems subtly to have exploited the former in the latter.” This quote about the Greek Parthenon, taken from Pollitt’s work on ancient Greek art and separated from its context, could almost be applied to a description of a much later, almost millennia later, Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral. While separated both by time and location, each ‘temple’ was created…

1) Who was Abbott Suger and why was he important? What surprising “building material” did he use? Abbot Suger is the man behind the visionary masterpiece, Saint Denis, which is a stained-glass piece of work that created historical importance in Cathedral glass structure. He is very important for his early work of gothic architecture and his style inspired many builders for years. The building material he incorporated in his work was the concept of light to reflect a symbol of god inside the…

influences of the late medieval period. There were stained-glass art windows on the walls similar to other Catholic churches. This made me think that there must be connection between stained-glass window art and Catholicism. Each stained-glass window seems to depict a unique story behind them. I am not certain who everyone was in those painted stained-glass windows. What I am certain of was that there were not only divine beings in those stained-glass windows. Some of the biblical figures I saw…

Avenue stayed where it was with police tape surrounding the cracked brick. However, to the people inside it was beautiful. The tall ceilings and their wooden supports framed the cracked windows where the light filtered through the old tinted glass. Stained glass chandeliers hung from the faded bricks that made up the ceiling. There was old floral couches that looked like they…