![]() However, most visitors to this historic site are not aware that the fascinating sculpted gargoyles and chimeras that adorn the façade are, in fact, nineteenth-century creations, products of the creative collaboration of the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and the sculptor Victor Pyanet. The cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris is the epitome of the Gothic style, and its magnificent sculptural program is often lauded as representing the richness of the medieval imagination. The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of ModernityĬhicago and London: University of Chicago Press 2009Ĥ39 pages, 378 b/w illustrations bibliography index ed
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