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The Most Beautiful Stained Glass in the World 2
The document discusses the significance and beauty of stained glass in Gothic architecture, highlighting notable examples such as Sainte Chapelle and Notre Dame in Paris. It emphasizes how these windows transformed the perception of light within architecture, contributing to the aesthetic and spiritual experience of Gothic cathedrals. The text also mentions the historical resilience of these artworks throughout various conflicts and their influence on modern and contemporary stained glass designs.
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- 1. The most beautiful stainedglass in the world
- 2. 1 ‘Sainte Chapelle’, inParis, is a miracle of light and colour! Epitome of radiant gothic, these windows have remained perfect since 1248. They have even endured fire and flood and survived the French Revolution, the Franco-Prussian war and two world wars.
- 3. ‘Notre Dame’ Cathedralin Paris 2 These stained glass windows illuminated the birth of medieval polyphony through the 'school of Notre Dame', which showed new paths to music just in the way of its architecture illuminated the new planimetric and spatial concept of the Gothic. The light is now taken into account as an aesthetic factor of the first order with an architectural value unknown until then.
- 4. 3 Gothic is essentially anew architectural language that would stretch along the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries throughout Europe. The great Gothic's contribution has not been the pointer arch neither buttresses nor even another type of structural solutions but the incorporation and processing of light.
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- 6. 1 ‘Pulchra Leonina’ HispanicGothic 5 ‘To this cathedral which is more crystal than stones, more light than crystal and more spirit than light’… Karol Wojtyla. The Leon Cathedral's construction began in 1254 but much of the original stained glass were lost during the Napoleonic invasion.
- 7. The Gothic wasthe epitome of urban renaissance 6 The Gothic architect organizes a structure that allows them to use light as an aesthetic factor with architectural values. The Gothic stained glass dematerialises all architectural elements to get a feeling of unprecedented weightlessness Reims Cathedral
- 8. 7 A physical and diffusedlight, a transfigured and coloured light through colour contrast of the opaline glass that changes the space into something unreal, mystical and symbolic. Amiens Cathedral
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- 10. The Duomo inSiena, Italy 9 The gothic and its stained glass did not have an excessive predicament of an Italy attached to the Roman tradition. As an example of the most pure Italian Gothic we can mention the cathedrals in Orvieto, Sienna and Milano.
- 11. San Vito Cathedralin Prague 10 Work of the modernist artist, Alphonse Mucha.
- 12. York Minster Chapter House England The Chapter Houseis one of northern Europe's largest Gothic cathedrals and it contains a shocking collection of stained glass from medieval era. 11
- 13. 12 Palma de MallorcaCathedral Exponent of Mediterranean Gothic, it was built with massive walls and powerful buttresses that left little room for openings, closed with Gothic windows that project coloured light over the solid walls. Some windows of the cathedral of Palma and the canopy were designed by Antonio Gaudi.
- 14. 13Cologne Cathedral During WWII lighting systems warned the pilots of the allied bombers of its presence: all of them had express orders to avoid any damage to the cathedral.
- 15. 14 Just one bombhit the cathedral in one of its towers. It suffered a huge damage and lost most of its stained glass windows.
- 16. 15Saint Patrick inNew York
- 17. 16 Cosmovitral of theBotanic Garden of Mexico
- 18. 17 'Damas de Cerdanyola'(Art Museum)
- 19. 18 University city ofMadrid, Faculty of philosophy The tradition of stained glass started while modernist stage and survived across Europe in later years throughout the 20s where it had its boom in Art Deco.
- 20. 19 Amatller House inBarcelona
- 21. 20 'Casa Lleó iMorera' in Barcelona The stained glass windows are compositions with pictorial values made from opaline colourful glass that are assembled by lead rods. The glass mass acts over the light breaking into a thousand multi- coloured flashes defining flat surfaces with unmatched richness of colour.
- 22. 'Palau de lamúsica' in Barcelona 21
- 23. 22'Sagrada Familia' inBarcelona Following a few indications from Gaudí, Jovan Vila-Grau is in charge of the stained glasses of the 'Sagrada Familia‘.
- 24. 1 23 Antonio Gaudí couldnot see his work on the 'Sagrada Familia' concluded, it is still being built up. Most of the stained glass windows were made by Josep Mª Bonet.
- 25. The most beautiful stainedglass in the world Thanks for your attention Innovation and legacy since 1923 www.vitrallsbonet.com/en
- 26. 25 SAINT CHAPELLE http://www.parismatch.com/ NOTRE DAME http://www.fotocommunity.es/pc/pc/display/25563822 http://viajar.especiales.elperiodico.com/95-lugares- basicos-de-espana/files/2014/06/catedral-de-leon.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/46759457@N06/6137929 331 CATEDRALLEON http://rincondelartedejudit.blogspot.com.es/2012_02_0 1_archive.html CATEDRAL DE SAN VITO EN PRAGA Saint chapelle http://www.parismatch.com/ http://objetivomalaga.diariosur.es/fotos-david-merino- muunoz/vito-314199.html The most beautiful stained glass in the world CATEDRAL DE AMIENS https://mateturismo.wordpress.com/category/vidriera/ CATEDRAL DE REHIMS http://www.castellsmonestirsicatedrals.com/2012/10/ca tedral-de-notre-dame-de-reims.html SAGRADA FAMILIA https://viajerapordiversion.wordpress.com CASA BATLLÓ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casa_Lleo_i_ Morera_Primer_Pis.JPG CASA AMATLLER http://www.imagala.com/tag/vitrall DAMAS DE CERDANYOLA http://cerdanyola-tessabarlo.blogspot.com.es