Though it took 632 years to complete, this five-aisled basilica, reaching a staggering 157 meters high, is the ultimate ...
In a workshop in the Milan suburbs, sculptor Giovanni Calderino completes his latest project -- a battered statue from the ...
Following an enormous, expensive restoration effort after the devastating 2019 fire, the Paris cathedral has reopened to the ...
There are more than 3,400 statues on the Duomo, on which construction began in 1386. They are carved from the dazzling ...
Five years after it was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire, Notre Dame de Paris formally reopened on Saturday with a two-hour ceremony inside the famed cathedral’s gleaming, newly renovated ...
Those indelible images of a burning cathedral against the Parisian skyline ... as was the destruction itself. At the gleaming Gothic monument, French President Emmanuel Macron – triumphant ...
The statues were designed in 1857 by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc as part of his radical restoration of the cathedral—of which ... writer on architecture and the Gothic revival, tells The Art ...
The damage to the statue was spotted during the twice-yearly inspections of the cathedral, by the institution that has managed the building for 600 years, the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano.
A 17th-century statue of the Virgin Mary ... will use his cross to knock on the door of the Gothic monument. In response, those inside the cathedral will sing Psalm 121. The psalm, in part, ...