The King and the Pope on the Virgin Portal of Notre-Dame
William M. Hinkle
This study of the Portal Coronation Virgin on west façade Notre-Dame is primarily concerned with problems identification two monumental statues that formerly stood in embrasures—those a pope and king—and related subject matter six extant reliefs dadoes beneath their former emplacement.1 Since, however, these also constituted an integral part iconographic program lower portions doorway, brief review general this its architectonic composition first necessary, as well consideration, however summary, place portal sculptural chronology façade.
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