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Photographs of Notre-Dame Cathedral: towers, façades, statues, sculptures, flying buttresses, façades, the Gallery of Kings, the Portal of Saint Anne, the parvis de Notre-Dame, by David Henry. Regardez cette page en français…

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The south side of Notre-Dame.

A detail of Notre-Dame

 Notre-Dame viewed from quai Montebello.

Notre-Dame under a marmalade sunset
The 69 meter-tall south tower houses the large bell “Emmanuel”, weighing 13 tons.

The south side of Notre Dame’s towers

 The statues of Notre-Dame’s Gallery of Kings, representing 28 Kings of Judah and Israel, were beheaded under the French Revolution.

Notre-Dame’s Gallery of Kings
Sculptures of kings, queens and saints lined up on the left-hand side of the Notre-Dame’s Portal of Saint Anne.

Statues in Notre-Dame’s Portal of Saint Anne

 The southern façade of Notre-Dame, less ornamented than that on the square is punctuated, like the north façade, by a forest of pillars, almost all of which are topped with obelisks decorated with flowers.

The southern façade of Notre-Dame
The rose window on the south façade of Notre-Dame depicts the “Triumph of Christ” along with scenes from the New Testament.

The rose window on the south wall of Notre-Dame

 The towers of Notre-Dame loom over the buildings at 7–11 quai aux Fleurs on île de la Cité.

Notre-Dame’s towers viewed from pont Louis-Philippe
Notre-Dame at night, seen from the left bank.

Notre-Dame seen from below pont au Double

 Flying buttresses on the southeast corner of Notre-Dame, seen from square Jean XXIII.

Notre-Dame Cathedrale’s flying buttresses on a sunny autumn afternoon
Double-span flying buttresses that support the nave of cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, late on winter afternoon.

Flying buttresses behind Notre-Dame Cathedral late in the afternoon

 The western façade of Notre-Dame late on a winter afternoon.

Notre-Dame seen from the Petit Pont
Notre-Dame Cathedrale’s south tower houses the great bell tolled by Quasimodo, Victor Hugo’s fictional hunchback.

The south tower of Notre Dame Cathedral

 The twin towers of Notre Dame Cathedral under the late afternoon sun.

Notre-Dame’s towers viewed from pont au Double
Saint-Denis, the first bishop of Paris, walked to Vicus Catulliacus with his head in his hands after being beheaded in Montmartre in the year 273.

A statue of Saint-Denis on the south façade of Notre-Dame’s sacristy

 The Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus, shown on a painting at the center of Notre-Dame’s ceiling, just in front of the high altar.

The medallion at the middle of Notre-Dame’s ceiling
Ogres at an intersection of the vaulted ceiling inside Notre-Dame cathedral.

Monsters on Notre-Dame’s ceiling

 A boy with prayer candles inside Notre-Dame, just inside the church to the right.

A boy with candles inside Notre-Dame
A woman praying inside Our Lady of Guadelupe chapel on the north side of Notre-Dame, one of 29 inside the cathedral.

A woman praying inside Notre-Dame Cathedral

 Saint-Denis walked twenty kilometers carrying his head in his hands after he was martyred.

Four saints lined up at Notre-Dame
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