Notre Dame has ... of the west façade, because the statues of biblical kings were reminiscent of the royalty the French had just overthrown. Even with these losses, the cathedral maintained ...

Construction of Notre-Dame began in 1163. The portal of the Last Judgment was installed on the cathedral’s west facade between 1220 and 1230. The archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, walking ...

The flames that devastated Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral had only just been extinguished ... prevented the flames reaching the magnificent west facade flanked by two towers.

The neo-Impressionist Maximilien Luce bid adieu to Seurat-style Divisionism in his series of paintings of Notre-Dame, including this Left Bank view, which showers the cathedral’s west façade in ...

The plan, scheduled for completion in 2027, calls for a greener and more welcoming look for Notre-Dame. The design for Notre ... between the south facade of the cathedral and the Seine," Smets ...

The fire destroyed a section of the cathedral that acted as the linchpin of its medieval design ... massive facade. Without the spire and roof in place, the limestone walls of Notre Dame ...

Two hours west of Rouen, Bayeux's cathedral – as big as Paris' Notre-Dame – dominates its small town. Its two towers and west facade were ... to their ingenuity of design and the loving ...

“You still haven’t seen Notre Dame’s west facade,” we tease my dad. The first time my mom, an art historian and Gothic architecture obsessive, took us to Paris’ iconic ...

“You still haven’t seen Notre Dame’s west facade,” we tease my dad. The first time my mom, an art historian and Gothic architecture obsessive, took us to Paris’s iconic ...

Notre Dame de Paris is perhaps France’s most famous ... is known—finished the nave and the two towers of the main (west) facade. Work began on the transept facades, which were completed ...

But yesterday Notre-Dame cathedral, one of its most iconic structures ... as the great rose window of Notre-Dame’s west façade attests wonderfully.” Not only is the church an icon of French ...