Five years after it was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire, Notre Dame de Paris formally reopened on Saturday with a ...

It is often ordinary people who create the most extraordinary beauty, particularly when the undertaking is grand in scope.

Nearly 200 years before a catastrophic fire gutted the Paris landmark, Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame helped ...

The crown jewel of French Gothic architecture, Chartres Cathedral was built in just 26 years after a devastating fire in 1194. Its revolutionary west façade, anchored by the iconic Royal Portal and ...

They soar impossibly skyward, their spires pierce clouds, and their stained glass transforms sunlight into kaleidoscopes of color. Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest ...

Shimla’s St Michael Cathedral, a 138-year-old French-Gothic marvel, faces dire structural threats from deepening cracks and ...

It is a surprising coda to the broadly anticlerical French Revolution—not to mention seemingly dissonant with contemporary ...

Thus, the Cathedral features several different architectural styles — Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance ... and the Anglo-French royalty, which included the Duke of Normandy and English ...

Notre-Dame, the Gothic cathedral in the heart of the French capital, was “in a very dire state. The flying buttresses were beginning to crumble.” This was two years before the great fire that ...

In 1793, following the French Revolution ... In fact, this is the history of the Gothic style: A cathedral catches fire and is nearly destroyed, but the saints intervene, or even the Virgin ...

Notre Dame Cathedral formally ... the 861-year-old Gothic wonder at the center of the City of Lights. Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris presided over the reopening with French President Emmanuel ...

to the French invention of the Gothic, to the medieval Platonism of Chartres and Cluny, which gave all the Gothic cathedrals of Europe their birth. They are a French creation. But it’s deeper ...