Overview
- The exhibition opens tomorrow in Paris, showing ink-on-paper, full-scale maquettes of six proposed stained-glass windows through March 15.
- The project would replace 19th-century monochrome windows created under Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus that were not damaged in the 2019 fire.
- Tabouret’s proposal was selected from more than 100 submissions in a competition calling for figurative designs based on the Pentecost narrative.
- The artist is collaborating with Atelier Simon-Marq, with glass colors drawn directly from her paintings and backgrounds referencing motifs from the existing panes.
- Preservationists argue the replacement breaches cultural guidelines, and a petition asking President Emmanuel Macron to reconsider has received over 147,000 signatures.