Reading Reims, I. The Sculptures on the Chapel Buttresses
William W. Clark
Notre-Dame at Reims is one of the most famous and influential all medieval cathedrals, but it does not express an unchanging, monolithic system beliefs through its decoration, as has so often been presented. Although best known coronation church kings France, we need to keep in mind that over course 800 years there have only 25 coronations cathedral meanings are far richer more complex than those attend site coronation. By focusing on earliest many programs namely, twelve figures top radiating chapel wall pier buttresses, by using detailed photographs made prior 1914 bombardments, this study demonstrates from beginning was constructed with overlapping, multivalent were understood interpreted different ways time.
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