Sainte-Chapelle

A palace chapel built by Louis IX of France between 1242 and 1248 on the Île de la Cité in Paris, inside the old royal palace. It went up to house the Passion relics the king had bought from the Latin Emperor of Constantinople, above all the Crown of Thorns. Its fifteen tall windows tell 1,113 biblical scenes in 13th-century glass, with almost no wall between the columns: a Bible made of glass.