ARTHIST 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Riems, Stained Glass, True Cross
11 Dec 2016
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Blanche is rgent 1226-31 and again 1248-54. Louis crowned at reims in 1226 crusades of 1248 and 1270 d. 1270. Canonized 12: establishes idea of ideal king just, wise, fair, innocent until proven guilty. Old parts encasing the carolingian church: burial place, transformed narrow and dark carolingian church into a pantheon, necropolis. New structure of 1231: continuity new architectural concept, suger"s ambulatory, transition- The bay area height begins to creep up dimensions increase in scale as we move from the ambulatory to the transept. Shafts at the tirforium level that shift up. The wall is hinged back not on axis to get to the proportions of the new transept. Steps up, swells out: the new rayonnant elevation. Linkage everywhere: signature that becomes the court of louis ix. The ste. -chapelle in a 15th century miniature. Part of louis" piety was to collect the relics of christendom. Louis had to buy the sacred relics from the venetians in pawn.
