Identifier: parisenviro00karl (find matches)
Title: Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig, K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e sculptureshave mostly been renewed, partly after those of the cathedrals ofRheims, Amiens, and Bordeaux. Below are three finely recessed por-tals. The sculptures, so far as they have survived the ravages ofthe Revolution, are admirable specimens of early-Gothic. The othershave been renewed by Viollet-le-i)uc. Those on the central portalrepresent the Last Judgment; the fine modern figure of Christ onthe central pillar is by G. Dechaume. In the tympanum (Christ inGlory) the angel on the left holding the nails is a masterpiece ofJ 8th cent. French sculpture. The 8. portal, the oldest, is dedicatedto St. Anne, and that on the N., by which the church is generallyentered, to the Virgin, both being adorned with appropriate sculp-tures. The relief of the Resurrection and the Triumph of the Virginis notewortliy. The fine ironwork of the doors should be observed,but those of the central door are modern. This story ends in agallery, with niches containing statues of twenty-eight kings of a;o c
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NOTRE-DAME. Citi 15. 275 Israel and Judah (once supposed to represent kings of France),renewed in the 19th century. Above the gallery, in the centre, is astatue of the Virgin, with two angels bearing torches; to the leftand right are Adam and Eve. — The chief adornment of the secondstory is a large rose-window, 31 ft. in diameter, with simpletracery. At the sides are double pointed windows. — The thirdstory is a gallery of pointed arches, about 26 ft. in height, borneby very slender columns, each double arch being crowned with anopen trefoil. Above this runs a balustrade, crowned with figuresof monsters and animals (see p. 276); the facade then terminatesin two great square towers, each pierced with twin-windows, about52 ft. in height. The facades of the transepts also deserve iuspection. The sculp-tures here also Jiave been partly renewed by Viollet-le-Duc. Thosein the tympanum of St. Stephens (the S.) portal, are scenes fromthe life of the saint (middle of 13th cent.). On the do

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