La Sainte-Chapelle
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 | La Sainte-Chapelle |
| Designer | unknown |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Date | 1238 to 1244 |
| Building Type | church |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | French Court Gothic |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | Gilded, gem-studded interior with great vaults reduced to tracery. built for King Louis, later sainted. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/La_Sainte-Chapelle.html |
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Located in the heart of Paris, slightly west of Notre Dame, on Michel Bd. du Palais au Change.
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Werner Blaser and Monica Stucky. Drawings of Great Buildings. Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 1983. ISBN 3-7643-1522-9. LC 83-15831. NA2706.U6D72 1983. plan, section, and interior elevation drawings, p82.— Available at Amazon.com
Hans H. Hofstatter. Living Architecture: Gothic. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1970. LC 68-10649. NA440.H613 1971. exterior photo, p35. perspective drawing of leaf capital, p89. elevation drawing of window with pinnacled gable and balustrade, p88.
Dennis Sharp, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design, an imprint of Watson-Guptil Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. interior, exterior photos, p191.
Alene Stickles, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, June 1993. PCD.2365.1012.0634.026, facade. PCD.2365.1012.0634.029, interior view of apse. PCD.2365.1012.0634.028. PCD.2365.1012.0634.027, exterior view of apse.
Henri Stierlin. Comprendre l'Architecture Universelle 1. Paris: Office du Livre S.A. Fribourg (Suisse), 1977. transverse section drawing, p168. plan drawing, p168.
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