Rose Window of the North Transept

The North window of Notre Dame de Paris. The magnificent roses of the transepts at Notre Dame date to 1250-60. Unlike most of the glass in Paris, and much of France, these two contain nearly all of their original elements. The ravages of time and war destroyed a majority of the great glass works of the Middle Ages, though human arrogance also took its toll. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the distaste for Medieval styles was prevalent across Europe. In efforts to modernize the churches and cathedrals, windows were callously smashed out and replaced with a lightly tinted glass called grisaille. In the nineteenth century some of these works were restored. Sadly, there no longer existed an extant tradition which supported the same degree of craft evident in such masterpieces as the roses of Notre Dame de Paris and Chartres. Image: Rhey Cedron

Photographic Features of Notre Dame de Paris

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Vista of Paris from atop Notre Dame - 45k Vista of Notre Dame from the Southwest - 50k View of Notre Dame from Southeast - 95k Vista of Notre Dame from the Seine - 50k

Interior of the North rose window - 165k View of the West facade, 1890s - 50k Vista from the Southeast, 1890s - 40k View of the Barricades, 1870s - 48k

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