L'espace du Palais de 1670 à 1790 - Adrien Pitor

The Sainte-Chapelle and the construction of sacral monarchy: royal architecture in thirteenth-century Paris

"This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 especially to hold and to celebrate Christ's Crown of Thorns. Meredith Cohen argues that the chapel's architecture, decoration, and use conveyed the notion of sacral kingship to its audience in Paris and in greater Europe, thereby implicitly elevating the French king to the level of suzerain, and establishing an early visual precedent for the political theories of royal sovereignty and French absolutism. By setting the chapel within its broader urban and royal contexts, this book offers new insight into royal representation and the rise of Paris as a political and cultural capital in the thirteenth century"--

Architecture, High Gothic

Art patronage

Buildings, structures, etc

France

France Paris

HISTORY / Europe / General

Kings and rulers Religious aspects

Louis

Paris (France)

Religious aspects Christianity

Sainte-Chapelle (Paris, France)

Sovereignty

Symbolism in architecture

Meredith Cohen

New York

Cambridge University Press

2015

293

978-1-107-02557-8

The Sainte-Chapelle and the construction of sacral monarchy

NA5550.S7 C64 2015