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The interior has the elements of a classic Gothic church; the colonnades and the arched ceiling, but rendered with concrete and iron and brightly coloured. The dome is 26.5 meters high and 12 meters in diameter. The architecture of the dome was designed by George Gauidbert to include four windows on its lower level. [3]
The most famous features of the chapel, among the finest of their type in the world, are the fifteen great stained-glass windows in the nave and apse of the upper chapel, which date from the mid-13th century, as well as the later rose window (put in place in the 15th century). The stone wall surface is reduced to little more than a delicate ...
The royal chapel built by Louis IX to contain his collection of Passion relics, including Christ's Crown of Thorns – one of the most important relics in medieval Christendom. It is noted especially for its towering walls of stained glass. [1] Saint-Eustache: 1 Rue de Jour (1st arrondissement of Paris) Flamboyant Gothic Parish church (1532–1640)
At Sacré-Cœur, the crypt has stained glass windows, thanks to a "saut-de-loup", a trench about four meters wide around it, which allows light to enter through windows and oculi of the crypt wall. In the centre of the crypt is the chapel of the Pieta , whose central element is a monument statue of the Virgin Mary at the foot of the cross, at ...
The Chapel of the Virgin, just north of the choir was designed by François Mansart. It is a major landmark of French Baroque art, notable for both its architecture and the paintings and sculpture it contains. Its features include an enormous oval dome, decorated with a painting of the Assumption by Jean-Baptiste
Funding will support the repair and restoration of the historic church’s stained-glass dome ceiling to eliminate deflecting glass, maintain architectural integrity, and ensure the safety of ...
The exterior plan is very simple; the bays are separated by strong buttresses, crowned by spires, and each bay is fill with stained glass up to the beginning of the roof, where it is topped by a gable, or pointed arch. The chapel originally had a flèche from the roof at the 4th traverse, similar to that of the Paris chapel. It was destroyed in ...
The Bridge of Glass featuring work by internationally noted glass artist Dale Chihuly is a 500-foot pedestrian footbridge spanning a Tacoma highway. It was opened in 2002 as a gift to the city ...