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‘Sainte Chapelle’, in Paris, 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.

‘Notre Dame’ Cathedral in Paris 3

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.

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Gothic is essentially a

new 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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‘Pulchra Leonina’ Hispanic Gothic 6

‘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.

The Gothic was the epitome of urban renaissance

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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 weightlessnes

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Reims Cathedral

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A physical and diffused light, 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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Chicago Cultural Center

The Duomo in Siena, Italy

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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.

San Vito Cathedral in Prague

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Work of the modernist artist, Alphonse Mucha.

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York Minster Chapter House

England

The Chapter House is one of northern Europe's largest Gothic cathedrals and it contains a shocking collection of stained glass from medieval era.

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Palma de Mallorca Cathedral

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.

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During WW II 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.

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Just one bomb hit the cathedral in one of its towers. It suffered a huge damage and lost most of its stained glass windows.

16Saint Patrick in New York

17Cosmovitral of the Botanic Garden of Mexico

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'Damas de Cerdanyola' (Art Museum)

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University city of Madrid, 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.

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Amatller House in Barcelona

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'Casa Lleó i Morera' 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.

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23'Sagrada Familia' in Barcelona

Following a few indications from Gaudí, Jovan Vila-Grau is in charge of the stained glasses of the 'Sagrada Familia‘.

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Antonio Gaudí could not 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.

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