It's a
rayonnant vintage, 13th century, the next generation after the Chartres/Reims/Amiens/Bourges classics, with all the latest advances. We visited in both the morning and afternoon.
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West facade; another one-tower cathedral, St. Peter's;
St. Paul's is still awaiting construction |
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| Not a great deal of sculpture to admire... |
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| Here, it's the size, the height, and especially the light, and the color... |
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| We both exclaimed "Glazed triforium!" |
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| Thus |
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| Important moral lesson about too much wine |
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Beautiful, new colors; Troyes eventually became a center of
painted glass-making |
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| View abaft |
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| Above the choir |
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| In the ambulatory |
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| Great over-all light, even on a cloudy morning |
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The knock-out for us was this huge, pink-appearing, rose window in the south transept;
up close you could see it was not pink glass, but the juxtaposition of red and blue bits...
an Apocalypse window, judging from the number of elders... |
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| Altar |
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| Aisle view |
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| Pier-hugger |
1 comment:
Well, of course the Catholics would build the St. Peter tower and not the St. Paul one! The stained or painted glass is beautiful. I would have thought the rose window was in pinks, too.
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