The stained-glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle

• The first identification of each scene depicted in the stained-glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle
• A map showing the location of the windows

Whilst the relics for which the Sainte-Chapelle was built have left this Great Reliquary, the modern visitor is still left to marvel at the splendour of its glass architecture – that is to say, its stained-glass windows. This is what Paul Claudel was referring to when he wrote in *L’Œil écoute*: “What was merely pigment on earth is glorified in heaven through transparency. These panes of coloured glass around us are matter that feels; they are abstract matter, sensitive to the intellectual ray… Here is paradise regained.”

In this album, visitors, as well as stained-glass enthusiasts and readers of the Bible, will find descriptions of each of the some 1,200 scenes that make up the curtain of light in the upper chapel, the restoration of which has just been completed. Both an act of faith and a political act, the Sainte-Chapelle is revealed here in a new light.

Foreword 

Window 13: Genesis 

Bay 11 Exodus 

Bay 9 Numbers

Bay 7 Deuteronomy – Joshua 

Bay 5: Judges 

Stall 3: Isaiah – The Tree of Jesse 

Bay 1 Saint John the Evangelist – The Infancy of Christ 

Panel 0 The Passion 

Panel 2: The Life of St John the Baptist – Daniel 

Panel 4 Ezekiel 

Panel 6: Jeremiah – Tobit 

Panel 8: Judith – Job 

Bay 10 Esther 

Stain 12: The Kings 

Bay 14: The Story of the Relics of the Passion

West Rose Window: The Apocalypse 

This album was produced in collaboration with Françoise Perrot. A research director at the CNRS, she is one of the leading experts on the history of stained glass and sacred art, particularly the Sainte-Chapelle, on which she has published numerous works. She focuses in particular on the significance of monumental imagery from the Middle Ages.