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  The cathedral of Notre-Dame in Amiens was mostly constructed out of limestone, the relatively short timespan ... 42.30 and the spire rises 112.7m above the ground making Amiens the tallest completed Gothic church and largest cathedral in France, ...

Book page - walwyn - 05/07/2012 - 00:10 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... mid 18th century, this Pieta is in the north ambulatory of Amiens Cathedral. ...

Theme - walwyn - 05/17/2012 - 01:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... is part of a larger sequence of polychromatic images at Amiens Cathedral of the subject of Jesus Cleansing the Temple .   ...

Theme - walwyn - 03/05/2012 - 22:50 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... are mounted in the west wall of the south transept of Amiens Cathedral. They tell the story of St James the Greater 's conversion of ...

Historical Item - walwyn - 03/07/2011 - 22:39 - 0 comments

These polychrome reliefs on the north of the choir screen tell the story of the life of John the Baptist. They were created in about 1531 and set into a wall surmounted by a rich ornamental parapet.    
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Historical Item - walwyn - 01/22/2012 - 13:52 - 0 comments

... carved polychrome sculptures of Angels (c1523) at Amiens Cathedral. These form part of a sequence of sculptured based on Jesus Cleansing ...

Theme - walwyn - 02/02/2012 - 20:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Part of the western façade of Amiens cathedral this scultpured lintel shows St Michael weighing ...

Theme - walwyn - 01/05/2012 - 20:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Polychrome sculpture at Amiens Cathedral depicting the Exhumation of the remains of St Firmin. This is ... sculpted between 1490 and 1530 telling the story of the Amiens saint Firmin. ...

Theme - walwyn - 12/17/2011 - 13:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... after Henry entered Paris later that year, and again at Amiens in 1423.   A little over two years later both Henry and Charles ... Siege of Orleans and was crowned king of France at Riems Cathedral, and maintained a court at Bourges. Although Henry was later crowned ...

This Day - walwyn - 05/21/2012 - 15:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Beheading of John Baptist (1531). Amiens Cathedral, France ...

Theme - walwyn - 12/11/2011 - 01:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments