The most famous features of the chapel, among the finest of their type in the world, are the great stained glass windows, for whose benefit the stone wall surface is reduced to little more than a delicate framework. Fifteen huge midth-century windows fill the nave and apse, while a large rose window with Flamboyant tracery added to the upper chapel c. Despite some damage the windows display a clear iconographical programme. The three windows of the eastern apse illustrate the New Testament, featuring scenes of The Passion centre with the Infancy of Christ left and the Life of John the Evangelist right.
The cycle starts at the western bay of the north wall with scenes from the Book of Genesis heavily restored. The final window, occupying the westernmost bay of the south wall brings this narrative of sacral kingship right up to date with a series of scenes showing the rediscovery of Christ's relics, the miracles they performed, and their relocation to Paris in the hands of King Louis himself.
The Parisian scholastic Jean de Jandun praised the building as one of Paris' most beautiful structures in his "Tractatus de laudibus Parisius" , citing "that most beautiful of chapels, the chapel of the king, most decently situated within the walls of the king's house, enjoys a complete and indissoluble structure of the most solid stone. The most excellent colors of the pictures, the precious gilding of the images, the beautiful transparence of the ruddy windows on all sides, the most beautiful cloths of the altars, the wondrous merits of the sanctuary, the figures of the reliquaries externally adorned with dazzling gems, bestow such a hyperbolic beauty on that house of prayer, that, in going into it below, one understandably believes oneself, as if rapt to heaven, to enter one of the best chambers of Paradise.
O how salutary prayers to the all-powerful God pour out in these oratories, when the internal and spiritual purities of those praying correspond proportionally with the external and physical elegance of the oratory! O how peacefully to the most holy God the praises are sung in these tabernacles, when the hearts of those singers are by the pleasing pictures of the tabernacle analogically beautified with the virtues!
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O how acceptable to the most glorious God appear the offerings on these altars, when the life of those sacrificing shines in correspondence with the gilded light of the altars! Much of the chapel as it appears today is a re-creation, although nearly two-thirds of the windows are authentic. The Sainte-Chapelle was requisitioned as an archival depository in Two meters' worth of glass was removed to facilitate working light and destroyed or put on the market.
The Sainte-Chapelle has had various stages of restoration from the s onwards.
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Air pollution, the elements and the large number of visitors all cause damage to the stained glass windows. Also, in a layer of external varnish had been applied to protect the glass from the dust and scratches of wartime bombing. Half of the funding was provided by private donors, the other half coming from the Villum Foundation.
The project was completed in in time for the th anniversary of the birth of St. Louis who had ordered the construction of the church. Detail of a stained glass window depicting a baptism. Prior to the dissolution of the Sainte-Chapelle in , following the French Revolution , the term "Sainte-Chapelle royale" also referred not only to the building but to the chapelle itself, the choir of Sainte-Chapelle. However, the term was also applied to a number of other buildings. Louis IX's chapel inspired several "copies", in the sense of royal or ducal chapels of broadly similar architectural form, built to house relics, particularly fragments of Louis' Passion Relics given by the King.
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Terre-de-Haut des Saintes literally: It belongs to the commune municipality of Terre-de-Haut into the French department of Guadeloupe. Terre-de-Haut island is the most easterly island of the archipelago of les Saintes. Like its neighbour Terre-de-Bas, it holds its name from the maritime vocabulary which called the islands exposed to the wind highland and those protected from the wind, lowlands. It is an island of 5.
Besides Terre-de-Bas, several small islands surround Terre-de-Haut:. Small villages are seen spread out in the rolling hills in the interior.
Yachts and cruise boats are a common sight in the harbour. They are grouped into two halves: The local vocabulary says: The inhospitable relief and the low precipitation do not allow the establishment of agriculture.
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