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Exhibition Review
Faire parler les pierres: Sculptures médiévales de Notre-Dame
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 268–70
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Williamson, Paul (Williamson, Paul)
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Faire parler les pierres: Sculptures médiévales de Notre-Dame Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris 19th November 2024–16th March 2025 | :
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4. Bearded head. c.1230. Painted limestone, 21 by 20 by 18 cm. (Inrap, Paris; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris).
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5. Corner block with Aaron(?). c.1230. Painted limestone, 80 by 56 by 40 cm. (Inrap, Paris; exh. Musée de Cluny, Paris).
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6. Jamb figure of St Paul. c.1145. Limestone, 135 by 45 by 36 cm. (Musée de Cluny, Paris).
Book Review
Grands décors restaurés de Notre- Dame de Paris
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 62-3
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Bastet, Delphine (Bastet, Delphine)
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Grands décors restaurés de Notre- Dame de Paris Edited by Caroline Piel and Emmanuel Pénicaut. 112 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Silvana Editoriale, Milan, and Mobilier national, Paris, 2024), €15. ISBN 978–88–366–5682–0. | :
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1. Interior of Notre-Dame, Paris. c.1650. Oil on canvas, 83 by 93 cm. (Société des amis de Notre-Dame de Paris).
Article
The oculi of Notre-Dame, Paris
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 689–95
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Nouzeran, Dylan (Nouzeran, Dylan)
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Phalip, Bruno (Phalip, Bruno)
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Ybert, Arnaud (Ybert, Arnaud)
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1. South side of the chevet of Notre-Dame, Paris, before April 2019. (© Mathieu Ducros 2024; Bridgeman Images).
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11. Chevet oculus as designed by Viollet-le-Duc, Notre-Dame, Paris, taken by drone. (Photograph Dylan Nouzeran).
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12. Reconstruction of the elevation of the chevet. (Dylan Nouzeran).
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13. Stone-by-stone survey of the chevet of Notre-Dame, Paris, showing in dark red the reconstruction of the rediscovered oculus; in orange oculi of which some traces have remained; and in yellow a proposal for the size and position of the remaining oculi. (Dylan Nouzeran).
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14. Detail of a ground-plan of Notre-Dame, Paris, showing the first turning bay of the apse.
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15. Photogrammetic image showing the outline of an oculus visible on the jambs of the clerestorey in the first turning bay on the north side of the apse. (Dylan Nouzeran).
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2. Clerestorey window of Notre-Dame, Paris, before April 2019. (Courtesy the Mapping Gothic Project, Media Center for Art History; photograph Stephen Murray, 2011).
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6. Fragment of an oculus arm from Notre-Dame, Paris. c.1160. Limestone, height 79.5 cm. (Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris; CC0 Paris Musées).
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7. Interior of Saint-Martin de Champeaux, showing the oculi (now walled up) in the nave elevation. (Photograph Elise Baillieul).
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9b. Below, left: flat blade tool marks on an impost of an arcade capital on the north side of the chevet of Notre-Dame, Paris. (Photograph Arnaud Ybert).
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10. Above: flat and toothed blade tool marks on detail of clerestorey window jambs in the chevet of Notre-Dame, Paris. (Photograph Arnaud Ybert).
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3. Y-shaped fragment of an oculus from Notre-Dame, Paris. c.1160. Limestone, height 35 cm. (Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris; CC0 Paris Musées).
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4. Fragment of an oculus arm from Notre-Dame, Paris. c.1160. Limestone, height 91.5 cm. (Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris; CC0 Paris Musées).
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5. Fragment of an oculus arm from Notre-Dame, Paris. c.1160. Limestone, height 63 cm. (Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris; CC0 Paris Musées).
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8. Interior of Notre-Dame de la Nativité, Moret-sur-Loing, showing the oculi in the apse elevation. (Photograph Elise Baillieul).
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9a. Above, left: toothed blade tool marks on an impost of an arcade capital on the north side of the chevet of Notre-Dame, Paris. (Photograph Arnaud Ybert).
Book Review
Les portails du transept de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris: Architecture, sculpture, polychromie. Edited by Stephan Albrecht, Stefan Breitling and Rainer Drewello, transl. K. Mazurié de Keroualin
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1293-1294
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Bruzelius, Caroline (Bruzelius, Caroline)
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Les portails du transept de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris: Architecture, sculpture, polychromie Edited by Stephan Albrecht, Stefan Breitling and Rainer Drewello, transl. K. Mazurié de Keroualin. 248 pp. incl. 378 col. + 43 b. & w. ills. (Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, 2022), €39.95. ISBN 978–3–7319–1039–8. | :
Book Review
Les Mays de Notre-Dame de Paris, 1630–1707
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 938-940
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Marandet, François (Marandet, François)
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Les Mays de Notre-Dame de Paris, 1630–1707 By Delphine Bastet. 456 pp. incl. 252 col. + 342 b. & w. ills. (Arthena, Paris, 2021), €125. ISBN 978–2–903239–67–1. | :
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4. Christ at the home of Martha and Mary (May of 1704), by Claude Simpol. 1666–before 1710. Oil on canvas, 430 by 310 cm. (Musée des Beaux-arts, Arras).
Editorial
Notre-Dame three years on
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 331-332
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1. Scaffolding in the nave of Notre-Dame, Paris, 2022. (Photograph Aurélien Letouzé).
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2. Repairs under way to the glass in the rose window in the north transept of Notre-Dame, Paris, 2022. (Photograph Yves Gallet).
Exhibition Review
Notre-Dame, Paris: From Victor Hugo to Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 59-61
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Dumaine, Samantha (Dumaine, Samantha)
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Notre-Dame, Paris: From Victor Hugo to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Crypte archéologique de l’île de la Cité, Paris 9th September 2020–ongoing | :
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4. The parvis of Notre-Dame, by Charles Fréchot. 1833. Watercolour, brush and ink, 39 by 30.7 cm. (Musée Carnavalet– Histoire de Paris; exh. Crypte archéologique de l’île de la Cité, Paris).
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5. North tower of Notre-Dame, Paris, showing Henri Le Secq and the stone chimera called Le stryge, by Charles Nègre. c.1853. Modern salt paper print from paper negative, 32.5 by 23 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; exh. Crypte archéologique de l’île de la Cité, Paris).
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6. Attack on Notre-Dame, by François Nicolas Chifflart. 1876–77. Pen, ink and watercolour, 30 by 26.3 cm. (Maisons de Victor Hugo / Roger-Viollet; exh. Crypte archéologique de l’île de la Cité, Paris).
Article
An unfinished mid-thirteenth-century ‘Virgin and Child’ from Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 896-903
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Dectot, Xavier (Dectot, Xavier)
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1. Virgin and Child. Here dated 1245–47. Limestone, 150 by 73 by 40 cm. (Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris; Photo Jennifer Vatelot).
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10. St John from the upper chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. 1239–48. Photograph taken before conservation. (Musée de Cluny, Paris, © RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Jean-Gilles Berizzi).
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11. Virgin and Child ('Gilded Virgin') from the south transept portal of Amiens Cathedral. c.1250. Limestone, height 230 cm. (Centre des Monuments Nationaux; photograph Philippe Berthé).
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12. Virgin and Child from the north transept portal of Notre-Dame, Paris. Before 1258. Limestone, height 200 cm. (Centre des Monuments Nationaux; photograph Pascal Lemaître).
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2. Detail of Fig.1, showing the line of fracture. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the use of fine, flat chisels on the righthand side of the Virgin's veil. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the use of a flat chisel. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the use of a large tooth chisel. (Photograph Jennifer Vatelot).
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6. Demolition of the Lady Chapel of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. c.1802. Pen and ink and watercolour and gouache, 9.4 by 16.2 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, Destailleur 310).
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7. Plan of the church and monastery of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Lady Chapel is north-east of the church. 1764. Pen and ink and watercolour, 72 by 58.3 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, Destailleur Paris, t.2,306).
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8. Portal of the Lady Chapel of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. c.1245– 47. Limestone, 630 by 530 cm. (Musée de Cluny, Paris; © RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Gérard Blot).
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9. Childebert from the trumeau of the portal of the refectory of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. c.1240. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; © RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Tony Querrec).
Article
The fate of Notre-Dame, Paris
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 648-652
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Gajewski, Alexandra (Gajewski, Alexandra)
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Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
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1. The crossing of the cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris, photographed the day after the fire of 15th April 2019. (Photograph Christophe Petit Tesson; Pool; EPA-EFE; Shutterstock.)
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2. The interior of the roof of Notre-Dame, Paris, before the fire. (Courtesy F. Épaud).
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3. Drawing showing the construction of the medieval roof over the nave of Notre-Dame, Paris. 1982. (Courtesy F. Épaud / Centre de recherches sur les Monuments Historiques).
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4. The flèche, Notre-Dame, Paris, by Charles Melville. c.1874–80. Albumen print on paper, 46 by 34.7 cm. (Photograph © RMN-Grand Palais/Musée d’Orsay; Hervé Lewandowski).
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5. Sculptures of the Apostles and symbols of the Evangelists from the flèche of Notre-Dame, Paris, under restoration at SOCRA, Marsac-sur-l’Isle, in June 2019. (Photograph © M. Alison Stones).
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