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ARE THE FRENCH DESECRATING CHARTRES?

  • 1.  ARE THE FRENCH DESECRATING CHARTRES?

    Posted 12-23-2014 05:29 PM
    This message has been cross posted to the following Discussion Forums: Historic Resources Committee and Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, & Architecture .
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    Chartres Cathedral, one of the most celebrated sacred sites on earth, is undergoing a makeover. While the French government claims historical accuracy for the changes, others, most notably architecture critic Martin Filler, have taken the French to task and have pronounced the "new" Chartres a scandal of historic proportions.
    What do you think? Should Chartres be left as it is (seems too late for that) or restored to how the French government argues its original builders intended it to be? The two links below will take you to Filler's article, the second to the French response.

    http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/dec/14/scandalous-makeover-chartres/
    http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/dec/17/new-chartres-exchange/

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    Michael Crosbie FAIA
    Editor-in-Chief
    Faith & Form
    Essex CT
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