Built by thousands, beloved by millions: Rebuilding Notre-Dame is an undertaking worthy of its history GlobeArts
A building can have many lives if it is properly loved, and Paris’s great cathedral has proved this rule for 850 years. This week, the great structure and French society together face a new test.
Dedicated to worship, it was the work of many human hands: thousands of workers over more than a century, who manipulated great masses of limestone into its walls and buttresses and more than 1,300 logs into its great, 60-metre-long ceiling. A great array of carvings – angels, apostles, saints, gargoyles, chimera – captured the artistry of the 12th, 13th and 19th centuries.Built between 1160 and 1260, Notre-Dame was one of the first churches built in the Gothic style.
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