The World's Most "Obscure" Cathedral✨

⬇️ The Grossmünster is one of the three main churches in Zurich, Switzerland (the other two being the Fraumünster and St. Peter's Church). Located in the heart of Zurich, it proudly stands as a symbol of the city's medieval roots. 🕍 In the fall of 2009, German Neo-Expressionist painter Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) completed the twelve stained-glass windows of the Grossmünster, setting new standards for the relationship between art and the church. 🎨 ⬇️ One set of seven Romanesque windows features luminous "mosaics" made of thin slices of agate, some of which have been artificially colored to form pulsating backlit color blocks. The interior of the rock not only reveals unexpected colors, shimmering light, and anciently trapped brilliance but also allows one to look back at the infinitely distant past of geology and cosmology. 🌌 ⬇️ In the remaining five windows, Polke designed other stained-glass windows based on patterns from the Old Testament. These patterns, drawn from medieval illustrations that have traveled through time, have now become highly modern icons. These designs are painted on the glass using various traditional and newly developed techniques, rather than being applied to the glass as usual. 🖌️ #Aesthetics #AestheticAppreciation #AestheticAccumulation #Inspiration #DesignInspiration #Design #EuropeanTravel #OffTheBeatenPath #ArtistShare #Museum