{"id":699,"date":"2018-02-08T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=699"},"modified":"2018-02-09T11:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:53:42","slug":"lecture-by-our-own-dr-emily-guerry-on-the-wall-paintings-of-the-sainte-chapelle-8-february-7-00pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2018\/02\/08\/lecture-by-our-own-dr-emily-guerry-on-the-wall-paintings-of-the-sainte-chapelle-8-february-7-00pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture by our own Dr Emily Guerry on &#8216;The Wall Paintings of the Sainte-Chapelle&#8217;, 8 February, 7.00pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You are warmly invited to a lecture by our own Dr Emily Guerry on <\/strong><strong>&#8216;The Wall Paintings of the Sainte-Chapelle&#8217;, <\/strong><strong>Thursday 8 February <\/strong><strong>at the Old Library, Kent College<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This fascinating talk should interest anyone who is interested in medieval history or art history \u2013 as well as lovers of Paris. The <a href=\"http:\/\/sainte-chapelle.monuments-nationaux.fr\/en\/\">Sainte-Chapelle<\/a> is just a few steps away from Notre Dame, hidden away in the Palace of Justice. It was built for King Louis IX in about 1241 to 1248 to house his collection of religious relics and has been described as one of the most beautiful buildings on earth. Its interior is dominated by 15 huge stained glass windows but, as Dr Guerry will explain, every inch of the remaining wall surface and the vault was also richly painted and decorated with remarkable images, patterns and motifs.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions please contact <a href=\"mailto:canterburyha@gmail.com\">canterburyha@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are warmly invited to a lecture by our own Dr Emily Guerry on &#8216;The Wall Paintings of the Sainte-Chapelle&#8217;, Thursday 8 February at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2018\/02\/08\/lecture-by-our-own-dr-emily-guerry-on-the-wall-paintings-of-the-sainte-chapelle-8-february-7-00pm\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50745,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[5349,173131,173172,39524,173132,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}