Decorative Exhibition
Decorative ExhibitionQuartier de l'Odéon
Step inside a cage of colored light built by Louis IX to house Christ's Crown of Thorns. Fifteen towering stained-glass windows wrap the upper chapel in 1,113 panels of ruby, sapphire, and gold that shift and glow as the sun moves. The climb from the sober lower chapel to this luminous medieval jewel box feels like ascending into another world entirely.
Tips
June 12 at 7pm
Chamber orchestras and soloists perform Bach, Vivaldi, and Mozart beneath Sainte-Chapelle's soaring 13th-century stained glass vaults, their jewel-toned light flooding across the musicians as they play.
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Decorative ExhibitionDecorative ExhibitionStep inside a cage of colored light built by Louis IX to house Christ's Crown of Thorns. Fifteen towering stained-glass windows wrap the upper chapel in 1,113 panels of ruby, sapphire, and gold that shift and glow as the sun moves. The climb from the sober lower chapel to this luminous medieval jewel box feels like ascending into another world entirely.
Tips
June 12 at 7pm
Chamber orchestras and soloists perform Bach, Vivaldi, and Mozart beneath Sainte-Chapelle's soaring 13th-century stained glass vaults, their jewel-toned light flooding across the musicians as they play.
