{"id":186279,"date":"2025-12-11T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/186279\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:34:15","slug":"despite-controversy-designs-for-notre-dames-new-windows-go-on-display-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/186279\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite controversy, designs for Notre Dame\u2019s new windows go on display in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:\u00a0 This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper<\/a>, an editorial partner of CNN Style\n<\/p>\n

\n The designs for six new stained-glass windows for the cathedral of Notre Dame have gone on show at the Grand Palais in Paris, despite a number of protests against the project.\n <\/p>\n

\n The works by the French artist Claire Tabouret replace the monochrome windows commissioned by the architects Eug\u00e8ne Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus in the 19th century. The original windows suffered no damage in the fire that destroyed the cathedral\u2019s spire five years ago, leading experts, architects and art historians to claim that replacing them would breach cultural guidelines.\n <\/p>\n

\n However, in a gallery reached via three stories of circular stairs in the Grand Palais\u2019 quiet south-western end, the building\u2019s walls are lined with dazzling, full-scale, ink-on-paper maquettes of the cathedral\u2019s new windows.\n <\/p>\n

\"Tabouret<\/p>\n

\n \u201cEvery time there is a new artistic intervention in a historic part of Paris, there is a controversy, and it\u2019s interesting to be part of that history,\u201d Tabouret told The Art Newspaper. \u201cThe Buren columns in the Palais-Royal, I. M. Pei\u2019s Pyramid at the Louvre \u2014 they go on to become beloved parts of the city. Change should be made with caution, and this project is very cautious, very gentle, harmonious.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The designs by Tabouret, a 44-year-old painter who now lives in Los Angeles, were chosen from submissions by more than 100 artists. They follow the given brief: the story of the Pentecost when the Holy Spirit appeared at a large gathering and filled each soul. \u201cI\u2019m not religious,\u201d she said, \u201cbut it is a story about community and celebration.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Tabouret is known as a figurative painter, but here she shifts between human groupings and vivid landscapes \u2014 a roiling sea, trees swept by a gale \u2014 to create an animated sequence of imagery. \u201cThe colors of the glass will be taken directly from my painting,\u201d she said of the vibrant reds, greens and blues which defer equally to the palette of historical religious art.\n <\/p>\n

\n The artist worked with the stained-glass masters Atelier Simon-Marq, who in the past created windows with Joan Miro and Raoul Dufy. She has not, however, forgotten the windows by Viollet-le-Duc, which formed a key part of the building\u2019s history.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI quote from Viollet-le-Duc in the ornamentation in the background of every scene,\u201d Tabouret said. \u201cThese geometrical designs make a direct reference to the previous windows.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cClaire Tabouret: In a Single Breath\u201d is on show at Grand Palais, Paris, until 15 March.\n <\/p>\n

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