French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated this week his promise to reopen the famous Notre Dame in one year, but he enraged some when he announced he would put contemporary stained-glass windows in ...
The French president Emmanuel Macron first announced the plans during a visit to the cathedral on December 8. He said he would initiate a competition inviting contemporary artists to submit designs ...
French president Emmanuel Macron, backed by the archbishop of Paris, is planning to replace a series of stained-glass windows, even though they remained intact after the devastating fire of 2019.
The windows in six chapels on the southern side of the cathedral will be replaced with new windows designed by modern French painter Claire Tabouret. French artist Claire Tabouret poses following a ...
© Claire Tabouret - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Amanda Charchian The artist Claire Tabouret has been chosen by the French president Emmanuel ...
Tabouret was selected by a special committee to create contemporary windows for Notre-Dame, in collaboration with the Reims-based glassmaking studio Simon-Marq. Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December 2024 ...
When you think of stained glass, you might think of cathedrals or mosques. Or in homes, you might think of Victorian architecture—and who could blame you? Stained-glass windows have become less common ...
Artisans, like worshipping pilgrims of the day who made pilgrimages to holy sites, traveled from church to church to work on stained glass window projects during the Medieval period. Most stained ...
What if the vast, beautiful stained glass windows of cathedrals could be used to generate energy? Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel explored this idea with her project Current Window, a modern, ...