Gothic art illustrates salvation deeper than just the physical beauty and genius of the window. The nature of the divine relates salvation in this era as the beauties of God are magnified strengthening people’s religious relationships to defer them from eternal damnation and willing to endure the hardships of life in order to bathe in the land of milk and honey. This glass, the Rose Glass of the Chartes Cathedral are stained windows is a creation that would captivated the eyes of its viewers not only due to its one-of-a-kind presence of colored glass in a frame, but that its brilliance gives of the feeling of something only holy. It goes beyond the uniqueness of the glass, but the symbolic beauty it contains. First, light itself is a creation from above, but to see it shimmer and illuminate a room even in darkness, with color would leave one in awe. It would have one to think that only God is able of something so special. This light leaves an intimate feeling among a person and that’s the relationship one is taught to have with the creator. Only something of God’s worth is this beautiful. The Lux Nova was ever so inspiring making one feel closer to the Creator in the essence of this light. With this new magnified light people would feel less likely to a life of damnation and would seek salvation in order to claim these beauties that God has set forth and that’s what the Lux Nova does, because if God is capable of this type of beauty on earth, it only leaves one to imagine, what he holds in the kingdom of heaven. This glass along with the beauties of the cathedrals was the perfect answer to the occurrences of the time, The Black Plague, which something this catastrophic could lead an individual off course and lose the belief.
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