My blog readers probably remember I was in tears on hearing my beloved Notre Dame sustained a fire.
Work Begins on Restoring Notre Dame’s 170-Year-Old Stained Glass Windows |
| More than three years after a fire badly damaged Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, work has begun to restore the building’s iconic stained glass windows. Per Reuters, most of the 170-year-old windows survived the blaze but became covered in smoke and dust, blocking light from streaming through the glass. In order to avoid damaging the windows in the cleaning process, restorers must gently rub the colorful surfaces with a mixture of water and ethanol. Flavie Serriere Vincent-Petit, the head of a stained glass company near Paris, is in charge of restoring 22 of the 39 windows. She told the outlet they are currently in a “major cleaning phase,” which when completed will ultimately “give back full brightness to Notre Dame.”It is one of many concurrent projects to get the historic, centuries-old cathedral back to where it was before the 2019 fire. In July, France’s Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak said they are on track to reopen Notre Dame to the public in 2024 — when the country is set to host the Summer Olympics. |
