The most beautifulstained glass in the world

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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 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.

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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.

4Galleries Lafayette, Paris

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‘Pulchra Leonina’ Hispanic Gothic 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.

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 weightlessness

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

Chicago Cultural Center

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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.

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.11

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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.

13Cologne Cathedral

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.

15Saint Patrick in New York

16Cosmovitral 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

20'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.

'Palau de la música' in Barcelona21

22'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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SAINT CHAPELLE

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NOTRE DAME

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basicos-de-espana/files/2014/06/catedral-de-leon.jpg

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CATEDRAL LEON

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1_archive.html

CATEDRAL DE SAN VITO EN PRAGA

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muunoz/vito-314199.html

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CATEDRAL DE AMIENS

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CATEDRAL DE REHIMS

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tedral-de-notre-dame-de-reims.html

SAGRADA FAMILIA

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CASA BATLLÓ

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Morera_Primer_Pis.JPG

CASA AMATLLER

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DAMAS DE CERDANYOLA

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