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The new glass is more traditional in many way, such as in terms of its subjects. And there is no meaningful way of restoring Notre-Dame to an "original style"
by vidarh 2y ago
The new glass is more traditional in many way, such as in terms of its subjects.
And there is no meaningful way of restoring Notre-Dame to an "original style" without making it unrecognisable to us - it consists of many hundreds of years of substantial alterations. While Viollet-le-Duc tried to find a compromise that worked, the result is that it is an eclectic 19th century mix of styles that never existed previously.