[Notre Dame de Paris]
Creation: 1861
Architectural portraits of medieval buildings often popularize restorations. When Victor Hugo made the cathedral famous in his novel, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), he described a building that had been badly damaged during the French Revolution. It was restored in the mid-nineteenth-century by architects Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus. The Gallery of Kings above the portals was battered by revolutionaries but re-installed in pristine form during the Restoration.
Title
[Notre Dame de Paris]
Contributor
Date
Creation: 1861
Description
Architectural portraits of medieval buildings often popularize restorations. When Victor Hugo made the cathedral famous in his novel, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), he described a building that had been badly damaged during the French Revolution. It was restored in the mid-nineteenth-century by architects Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus. The Gallery of Kings above the portals was battered by revolutionaries but re-installed in pristine form during the Restoration.
Rights
Public Domain
Format
Lantern slides
Source
MSS0483, Curtis Howe Walker Papers, Photo Box 2
Collection
Citation
“[Notre Dame de Paris],” Gallery, accessed December 9, 2019, https://gallery.library.vanderbilt.edu/items/show/809.