Posted on 09/25/2022 6:08:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
As reconstruction work advances, the cleaning and restoration of Notre-Dame’s famed stained glass, which survived the heat and the flames, also goes forward.
Notre-Dame de Paris has been closed for restoration since April 2019, after a massive fire destroyed its roof, which crashed through the vaults below. As reconstruction work advances, the cleaning and restoration of Notre-Dame’s stained glass windows, which survived the heat and the flames, also goes forward.
Almost three years after the tragic blaze, eight French glass manufactures are currently cleaning and restoring around 40 windows in the main nave, the choir, the transept, and the sacristy of the medieval Parisian cathedral. As explained in the note published by Reuters, “the windows were heavily soiled with smoke and dust, which blocked external light and obscured the range of colors” of the glass.
The glass-cleaning process is painstaking. It involves the patient rubbing of the surface of the window with cotton soaked in water and ethanol. The process needs to be delicately repeated until all the deposits of dust and smoke are collected — this, without damaging the glass.
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Last year (?) a report came out that there were plans to turn the cathedral into a woke Disneyland. Has that changed?
Thanks Tennessee Nana.
I’ll bet they’d let you volunteer, Alba. Probably done inside a year.
Two notes of caution:
1) wear a hardhat and some gloves, and don’t fall off the ladder
2) don’t just stare at the fensters, do some actual work, or they’ll escort you out
Send postcards!
When I visited Paris I walked around it's isle but got wrapped up with the book vendors and art going on in that neighborhood. And I was nervous about the notorious bellringer known to pour molten lead on people.
Did they ever figure out which muslim started the fire?
Ahahah! I would gladly volunteer but you know me, I would stare at the fenster all day long
Authorities don’t want to know. Wouldn’t want negative press against barbarian head-choppers.
“that glass is not a solid but a liquid.”
Odd but true fact.
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