L&L Luce&Light / Historical Buildings & Cultural Venues
L&L Luce&Light / Historical Buildings & Cultural Venues
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The church of Saint-Sulpice is a majestic place of worship in the
centre of Paris, in the famous Quartier Saint-Germain-des-Près. It
is the second-largest church in the city, after Notre Dame. Built in
the seventeenth century, Saint-Sulpice is particularly known for its
external facade in a neoclassical style with a double colonnade, Ionic
over Doric order.
Saint-Sulpice is one of Paris’s most popular tourist attractions, not
only because of the works of art it contains – including murals by
Eugène Delacroix and a statue by the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
– but also because, in 2003, some scenes from The Da Vinci Code, the
film adaptation of the acclaimed book by Dan Brown, were shot there.
The ten commanding statues by the artist Edmé Bouchardon, of Jesus
Christ Leaning on the Cross, the Virgin of Sorrows, and eight of the
apostles, arranged around the choir arches, are each lit from above
by a Siri 2.0 projector with extremely narrow optics, chosen with an
anthracite finish to better integrate the devices into the architecture.
The remaining lighting in the church is largely left to the enormous
stained-glass windows. With the lower part of the altar and the
choir picked out by the light of the projectors, and the upper vault
immersed in a half-light, the contrast this creates accentuates the
imposing, fascinating and mysterious nature of this famous Parisian
monument.
CHURCH OF SAINT-SULPICE
Paris, France
SIRI 2.0
Power: 16W
Optics: 6°
Colour temperature: 3000K
Finish: anthracite
