Sainte-Chapelle Upper Chapel — ceramic art tile

Sainte-Chapelle Upper Chapel

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Sainte-Chapelle Upper Chapel — ceramic art tile

Sainte-Chapelle Upper Chapel

$22.00
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The Upper Chapel of Sainte-Chapelle sits on the island in the Seine that holds Notre-Dame, a few hundred yards downstream. Louis IX built it in the 1240s to house the Crown of Thorns. The relic was the point; the architecture was the case it sat in. Fifteen windows climb to fifteen metres; together they carry more than a thousand scenes from the Old and New Testaments. Visitors look up and stop talking. The light moves through the day; the windows answer.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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