The bishops of Paris eventually agreed to put an end to student excesses. A magnet for all kinds of gatherings or spectacles, the cathedral was also the scene of trials and executions.
In the 18th century ideas of architectural taste radically shifted. The rood screen, studded with sculptures, was pulled down. The stained glass windows from the 12th and 13th centuries were replaced with clear glass. Only the three rose windows retain much of their original glazing. A pillar of the central doorway was demolished to allow grand processional carriages to pass through. More devastation was to come in Regarded as a symbol of the power and aggression of church and monarchy, the building was ransacked during the French Revolution.
The heads of the 28 statues in the Gallery of Kings on the main doorway were struck from their bodies, the crowd believing them to represent the hated royal lineage of France—in fact, they depicted the ancient kings of Judea and Israel. Also destroyed were the sculptures adorning the doorways, and the reliquaries and bronze statues inside.
Lead from the roof was pillaged for bullets. The bronze bells were melted down to make cannon. Only the enormous Emmanuel bell, which hung in the southern tower and weighed some 13 tons, was spared.
During the revolutionary period, the cathedral was de-Christianized, and the firebrand Robespierre dedicated the church to the cult of the Supreme Being.
Once the Terror had abated, the cathedral resumed its former role, but it was a shadow of its former splendor. Many of its windows had been shattered and its treasures ripped out or desecrated. Birds flew in and out through the broken panes, nesting high in the galleries and overhangs of what was turning into a giant ruin. Finally, in , the government of Napoleon Bonaparte signed a concord with the Holy See under which the Catholic Church would take back control of Notre Dame.
Work began immediately to clean up the building and repair the windows. By it was in an acceptable enough state for Napoleon to be crowned there as emperor. Notre Dame was returned to glory in the midth century, owing in no small part to the novelist Victor Hugo. A leading light of French romanticism, Hugo spearheaded the resurgence of interest in the medieval past and Gothic art. Parisians and the city authorities rallied around the decaying building as a treasure worth restoring.
A restoration of the cathedral was launched in the s. He restored the west facade and the Gallery of Kings, and also added new features: a towering spire, sculptures of the Twelve Apostles, and the now famous gargoyles and chimeras who perch on the stone walls.
Desecrated during the French Revolution, by the early 19th century, the cathedral was crumbling and half-ruined inside. Several precious religious relics, revered by Catholics, were inside the building. On the roof there were a number of beehives. As well as a historic monument and tourist attraction — drawing around 13 million visitors a year - Notre Dame is the heart of the Roman Catholic church in Paris.
I didn't even notice all the other people. I highly recommend seeing this beautiful cathedral. I mean really see it. Take the time to walk around it, sit in a pew for 10 minutes and notice all the gorgeous details. I think it will awe you as it did me.
Lara Dalinsky. A detour to Notre Dame's side garden is a great way to evade the crowds out front and enjoy a more scenic view of the cathedral's flying buttresses and gothic architecture. Parisian Taxi I wanted to get some interesting and different perspectives on Paris. So as I wandered around Notre Dame one evening, I started noticing the taxis. I was able to get this image with the repetitive background thrown out of focus.
I then converted it to black and white minus the taxi sign. It is one of my favorite images from Paris. The sun was getting low and the city was beginning to light up. It was fabulous! Notre Dame Cruising past the Notre Dame was a great way to see this icon from many angles, making photography a breeze!
Sivan Askayo. Serendipity No matter how serious life gets, you still gotta have that one person you can be completely stupid with It was quite a last-minute-plan that worked out very well like a last-minute-plan can work out.
My sister hasn't been to Paris for a while and was there for a shoot so the timing was perfect for both of us. Talking about timing. What makes a photograph to a good one, is timing as well. I wasn't really impressed or paying attention as I saw him already in my previous visit to Paris but my sister got quite curious so she stood there to look at him.
When I turned my head back to call my sister to join me, I saw this kid. The way these two were interacting was amazingly funny, naive and so I couldn't help myself and I took these pictures.
Right next to it was this lively street. A bit touristy, sure, but a fun place to people watch. I was drawn to the building sitting on the corner, cafe on the bottom, apartments up top.
Scooters and cars whizzing by. It was so "Paris". And all in the shadow of Notre Dame. I loved it. Jeff Kendrick. Nutella Sitting outside of Notre Dame, enjoying a nutella crepe and a Kronenbourg Life can get better Matthew Keesecker. Having survived centuries of damage to its amazing edifice, it stands fully restored today as one of the crowning artistic masterpieces of all time. Sometimes we move too fast in life, so people say to make time to 'stop and smell the roses.
Mine was on a Sunday in June; it was hot but I invited the sun to shine down on me as I discovered the beauties of Paris amongst friends. This is what Paris is all about; it is a place ready for you to fall in love with, all you have to do is be willing.
Seeing this and then walking across the "Love Bridge" while listening to a performer play Parlez-moi d'amour on his accordion- you can't help but love Paris. Glenn Miller. Sweeping views across Paris and you get to see where the "hunchback" lived. Andi Fisher. A really great place to take photos! The top of Notre Dame is a really great spot for photos of Paris. If you get there early enough and it isn't July or August the wait is not too long.
The choir was completed in , the high altar in Four sections of the nave were finished in At some point thereafter, a decision was made to add transepts at the choir, where the altar is, to bring more light into the center of the church.
The transepts were subsequently remodeled; a gabled portal was added to the north transept, crowned by a rose window. This was considered such a success that it was repeated some 15 years later on the south transept. The original buttresses were deemed at some point not strong enough and were replaced by larger ones in the 14th century. And so on. Nothing, it seems, was ultimately sacred.
In the mid 18 th century, the spire, an early antecedent of the one that collapsed last week, was removed because of wind damage. By the 19th-century, Notre Dame was battered and half-ruined inside, having survived its conversion to a storage warehouse. They not only restored original aspects of the church, but also added new elements that they felt were in keeping with the original spirit of the place.
For example, their reconstruction of the spire—the very same one that fell in the fire last week—was a taller and more ornate version of the earlier one. Yet this too is no modern depredation of the original.
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