SAINTE-CHAPELLE
- + Add to Faves
- + Translate
- + Share
العربية
ä¸å›½
Français
Deutsch
Ελληνική
हिनà¥à¤¦à¥€
Italiano
日本語
Português
РуÑÑкий
Español
(Redirected from Sainte Chapelle)
'La Sainte-Chapelle' (French for ''The Holy Chapel'') is a Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris, France. It is perhaps the high point of the full tide of the ''rayonnante'' period of Gothic architecture.
It was planned in 1241, started in 1246 and quickly completed: it was consecrated on April 26, 1248. The patron was the very devout Louis IX of France, who constructed it as a chapel for the royal palace.[1] The palace itself has otherwise utterly disappeared, leaving the Sainte Chapelle all but surrounded by the ''Palais de Justice,'' which carries on a single function of the palace, which was the site of the king's ''lit de justice'' where important aristocrats pled their cases before the king.
The Sainte Chapelle was built to house precious relics: Christ's crown of thorns, the Image of Edessa and thirty other relics of Christ had been in Louis' hands since August 1239, when it arrived from Venice in the hands of two Dominican friars. Unlike many devout aristocrats, who swiped relics, the saintly Louis bought his precious relics of the Passion, purchased from the Latin emperor at Constantinople, Baldwin II, for the exorbitant sum of 135,000 livres, which was paid to the Venetians, to whom it had been pawned. [2] The entire chapel, by contrast, cost 40,000 livres to build. In 1241 a piece of the True Cross was added, and other relics. Thus the building was like a precious reliquary: even the stonework was painted, with medallions of saints and martyrs in the quatrfoils of the dado arcade, which was hung with rich textiles.[3]
At the same time, it reveals Louis' political and cultural ambition, with the imperial throne at Constantinople occupied by a mere Count of Flanders and with the Holy Roman Empire in uneasy disarray, to be the central monarch of western Christendom. Just as the Emperor could pass privately from his palace into Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, so now Louis could pass directly from his palace into the Sainte Chapelle.
The Royal chapel stands squarely upon a lower chapel which served as parish church for all the inhabitants of the palace, which was the seat of government (''see'' "palace"). The king was later granted sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Louis.
The most visually beautiful aspects of the chapel, and considered the best of their type in the world, are its stained glass for which the stonework is a delicate framework, and rose windows added to the upper chapel in the 15th century.
No designer-builder is directly mentioned in archives concerned with the construction, but the name of Pierre de Montreuil, who had rebuilt the apse of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis and completed the façade of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is sometimes connected with the Sainte Chapelle.
During the French Revolution, the chapel was converted to an administrative office, and the windows were obscured by enormous filing cabinets. Their all-but-forgotten beauty was thereby inadvertently protected from the vandalism in which the choir stalls and the rood screen were destroyed, the spire pulled down and the relics dispersed. In the 19th century Viollet-le-Duc restored the Sainte Chapelle: the current spire is his sensitive design.
The Sainte Chapelle has been a national historic monument since 1862.
A replica of the Sainte Chapelle can be found in Chicago, Illinois. The St. James Chapelle of Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary, located on 103 E. Chestnut St, was built in the early 1900s under the direction of George Cardinal Mundelein in founding the high school seminary.
1. For other palace-chapels, all inspired by the example in Constantinople, see Theodoric's Chapel of the Savior in Ravenna, now the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo; Roger II of Sicily's Cappella Palatina in Palermo; Emperor Charles IV's Heilige Kreuz chapel at Karlštejn, Bohemia. (Robert Branner, "The Painted Medallions in the Sainte Chapelle in Paris" ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society'' New Series '58'.2 (1968, pp. 1-42) p 5.
2. Baldwin had appeared at the court of Louis in 1237 to ask for aid in defending Constantinople from the Greeks.
3. Branner 1968:8ff).
★ F. Gebelin, ''La Sainte Chapelle et la Conciergerie'' (Paris) 1937.
★ Sainte Chappelle Surround View (Quicktime needed to view) Kiri Te Kanawa sings Schubert's Ave Maria
★ Quicktime VR view
★ L'Internaute Magazine: Diaporama (in French)
★ Architectural description
★ Informative Article From 1921 On Sainte Chapelle
★ Information of the windows of St. James Chapel, replica of the Sainte Chapelle
★ List of the relics bought by Louis IX
Sainte-Chapelle surrounded by the Palais de Justice.
'La Sainte-Chapelle' (French for ''The Holy Chapel'') is a Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris, France. It is perhaps the high point of the full tide of the ''rayonnante'' period of Gothic architecture.
| Contents |
| History |
| Gallery |
| Notes |
| Further reading |
| External links |
History
Interior of upper chapel
It was planned in 1241, started in 1246 and quickly completed: it was consecrated on April 26, 1248. The patron was the very devout Louis IX of France, who constructed it as a chapel for the royal palace.[1] The palace itself has otherwise utterly disappeared, leaving the Sainte Chapelle all but surrounded by the ''Palais de Justice,'' which carries on a single function of the palace, which was the site of the king's ''lit de justice'' where important aristocrats pled their cases before the king.
The Sainte Chapelle was built to house precious relics: Christ's crown of thorns, the Image of Edessa and thirty other relics of Christ had been in Louis' hands since August 1239, when it arrived from Venice in the hands of two Dominican friars. Unlike many devout aristocrats, who swiped relics, the saintly Louis bought his precious relics of the Passion, purchased from the Latin emperor at Constantinople, Baldwin II, for the exorbitant sum of 135,000 livres, which was paid to the Venetians, to whom it had been pawned. [2] The entire chapel, by contrast, cost 40,000 livres to build. In 1241 a piece of the True Cross was added, and other relics. Thus the building was like a precious reliquary: even the stonework was painted, with medallions of saints and martyrs in the quatrfoils of the dado arcade, which was hung with rich textiles.[3]
At the same time, it reveals Louis' political and cultural ambition, with the imperial throne at Constantinople occupied by a mere Count of Flanders and with the Holy Roman Empire in uneasy disarray, to be the central monarch of western Christendom. Just as the Emperor could pass privately from his palace into Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, so now Louis could pass directly from his palace into the Sainte Chapelle.
The Saint Chapelle rises above the rooflines of the royal palace. Miniature by the Limbourg brothers, ''ca'' 1400
The Royal chapel stands squarely upon a lower chapel which served as parish church for all the inhabitants of the palace, which was the seat of government (''see'' "palace"). The king was later granted sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Louis.
The most visually beautiful aspects of the chapel, and considered the best of their type in the world, are its stained glass for which the stonework is a delicate framework, and rose windows added to the upper chapel in the 15th century.
No designer-builder is directly mentioned in archives concerned with the construction, but the name of Pierre de Montreuil, who had rebuilt the apse of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis and completed the façade of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is sometimes connected with the Sainte Chapelle.
Ceiling of the Lower Chapel
During the French Revolution, the chapel was converted to an administrative office, and the windows were obscured by enormous filing cabinets. Their all-but-forgotten beauty was thereby inadvertently protected from the vandalism in which the choir stalls and the rood screen were destroyed, the spire pulled down and the relics dispersed. In the 19th century Viollet-le-Duc restored the Sainte Chapelle: the current spire is his sensitive design.
The Sainte Chapelle has been a national historic monument since 1862.
A replica of the Sainte Chapelle can be found in Chicago, Illinois. The St. James Chapelle of Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary, located on 103 E. Chestnut St, was built in the early 1900s under the direction of George Cardinal Mundelein in founding the high school seminary.
Gallery
Notes
1. For other palace-chapels, all inspired by the example in Constantinople, see Theodoric's Chapel of the Savior in Ravenna, now the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo; Roger II of Sicily's Cappella Palatina in Palermo; Emperor Charles IV's Heilige Kreuz chapel at Karlštejn, Bohemia. (Robert Branner, "The Painted Medallions in the Sainte Chapelle in Paris" ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society'' New Series '58'.2 (1968, pp. 1-42) p 5.
2. Baldwin had appeared at the court of Louis in 1237 to ask for aid in defending Constantinople from the Greeks.
3. Branner 1968:8ff).
Further reading
★ F. Gebelin, ''La Sainte Chapelle et la Conciergerie'' (Paris) 1937.
External links
★ Sainte Chappelle Surround View (Quicktime needed to view) Kiri Te Kanawa sings Schubert's Ave Maria
★ Quicktime VR view
★ L'Internaute Magazine: Diaporama (in French)
★ Architectural description
★ Informative Article From 1921 On Sainte Chapelle
★ Information of the windows of St. James Chapel, replica of the Sainte Chapelle
★ List of the relics bought by Louis IX
This article provided by Wikipedia. To edit the contents of this article, click here for original source.
psst.. try this: add to faves
Featured Companies
| Vacation By V |
