The Sainte Chapelle Interior |
The
Sainte Chapelle is located in Paris, France and was built around 13th
Century by the order of Saint Louis
the 9th. The Sainte Chapelle is a good example of religious architecture
and also gothic architecture. The Chapelle was also an example “to the gate to
heaven” because of the amazing ambience it presents to the viewer. Another
example of what the Sainte Chapelle gives is the strong connections of social
life that is built around it. The church believes that sociality should work
together and help one another during the Mid-ages. This idea was made so that society
can become an organic society (dependent) instead of today’s mechanistic society
(independent) to help the sanctification of men. Religion played an important part
of the church’s form creation. The building is mostly made up of stain ornate
glass with illustration of Christ story; this feature also allows light to
first penetrate the glass and than bring in light in variant different colors.
The reason why they focus on bring in light and color into the interior space
is to give an impression of glory, to make humans feel the art or you can say
holiness of the ambience and leaving them speechless.
The Sainte Chapelle Upper Chapel |
The church consists of two chapels that were similar, but
used differently. Usually folks like kings, queens, and military men or
important people in the area used the Upper Chapel. Looking from the exterior
the chapel portal is protected by a porch and pushed
inwards where it form a tympanum. With in the tympanum there is an
embedded sculpture of the Last Judgment where Christ
is surround by his Angels. Inside the chapel there are four bays and
seven-section choir and the walls are taller than the 15 stained glass windows
(15.4 m height) that lets in light. It is made up of 1,113 pieces of glass. The
stained glass is considered to be a master pieced of the 13th
century.
Heading to the other chapel, the Lower Chapel is
just as beautiful as the upper but has less light since the employees used this
Chapel. Sources indicate that this Chapel was dedicated
to the Virgin Mary. You can see this being represented in the tympanum above
the entrance to the outside. In the embedded you can see Mary hold her baby,
Christ. The entrance is located under a porch
and the ceiling resembles a cloister mostly common in Christian churches.
The nave
has four bays with small columns supporting the side of the nave because the
height (6.6 m) of the space was to small compared to the width (10.7 m). The vaults
are decorated with golden stars show a divine
symbols. It’s also note that the upper Chapel’s vault are decorated with fleur
de lys (flower of the lily) to so the difference
between the two Chapels in which the upper Chapel decoration mean royalty.
The Sainte Chapelle Bays |
[1]http://architecture.relig.free.fr/chapelle_en.htm
[3]Hanser, David A. Architecture of France. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006. Print.
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