Magh Ene College - Art Gallery: L.cert Art - Take down notes on Notre Dame

WRITE IN THE FOLLOWING NOTES CONTINUEING ON FROM YESTERDAYS CLASS ON THE NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL - GOTHIC PERIOD - THIS HAS TO BE DONE IN YOUR HARDBACK NOTES COPY & BRING IT INTO ME THURSDAYS CLASS - CLASS 4.

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ART HISTORY CLASS TOMORROW SO DONT FORGET NOTES COPY & ALSO A FOLDER FOR HANDOUTS I WILL BE GIVING YOU.

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· At the end of the 17^th century , the cathedral underwent major alterations, during which many tombs and stained glass windows were destroyed. It also suffered during the French revolution of 1793, when many of its sculptures and treasures were destroyed or stolen.

Napoleon Bonaparte, who had declared the Empire on May 28, 1804, was crowned Emperor at Notre-Dame on December 2, 1804.

·The west front of the cathedral is one of its most notable features, with its two 69-meter (228-feet) tall towers. The South Tower houses the cathedral's famous bell, "Emmanuel." The bell weighs 13 metric tons (over 28,000 pounds), its clapper alone weighs 500 kilograms. The bell is Notre-Dame's oldest, having been recast in 1631.

The King's Gallery is a line of statues of the 28 Kings of Judah and Israel, which was redesigned by Viollet-le-Duc to replace the statues destroyed during the French Revolution. The revolutionaries mistakenly believed the statues to be French kings instead of biblical kings, so they decapitated them.

The three west portals of Notre Dame Cathedral are magnificent examples of early Gothic art. Sculpted between 1200 and 1240, they depict scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, the Last Judgment, and scenes from the life of St. Anne (the Virgin Mary's mother). Many of the statues, especially the larger ones, were destroyed in the Revolution and remade in the 19th century.

The stained glass windows of the Notre-Dame are very beautiful and a good part of them date from the 13th century when the cathedral was constructed. In this author's opinion, Notre-Dame's collection of stained glass is not as impressive as those at other French cathedrals, such as Chartres and Bourges, and in Paris the best place to enjoy an overall effect of stained glass is probably not Notre Dame but Sainte-Chapelle.

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