Notre Dame Cathedral’s New Stained Glass Ignites a New Firestorm

Visitors preview artist Claire Tabouret’s future contemporary stained-glass windows for Notre Dame Cathedral at Galerie 10.2 of the Grand Palais in Paris on Dec. 8, 2025.

Critics say the emphasis on diversity and emotional expression risks translating a central mystery of the Church into the visual language of the present moment, weakening the symbolic coherence of a Gothic cathedral built around light, hierarchy and transcendence.

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