TEC4552805: L'église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont (Saint Etienne du Mont), Paris 5 (France). Built from 1492 to 1865, architect Victor Balard. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4552818: L'église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont (Saint Etienne du Mont), Paris 5 (France). Built from 1492 to 1865, architect Victor Balard. / Bridgeman Images

MDA4552866: Painted decors in Melk Abbey (fresco), Troger, Paul (1698-1762) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4552812: L'église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont (Saint Etienne du Mont), Paris 5 (France). Built from 1492 to 1865, architect Victor Balard. / Bridgeman Images

MDA4552845: Melk Abbey (Austria), architect Jakob Prandtauer, 11th/18th, Denance, Michel / Bridgeman Images

TEC4552901: La Basilique du Sacre Coeur (Sacre Coeur), Paris 18. Architects Paul Abadie and Lucien Magne, 1877-1923. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4553042: Cathedrale Notre Dame des Anges, 555 West Temple Street, Los Angeles (California, USA). Architect Rafael Moneo, 2002., Moneo, Jose Rafael (b.1937) / Bridgeman Images

OMG4553057: Saint Sophia of Constantinopolis in Istanbul (Turkey), built in 537. / Bridgeman Images

LBY4553074: Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporain, Memorial de la Shoah, 17 rue Geoffroy l'Asnier, Paris 4. Architect Antoine Jouve, Simon Vignaud, 2005. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4553157: La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (Spain). Architect Antoni Gaudi, 1882. / Bridgeman Images

LBY4553253: The Cathedrale Notre Dame, Place du Parvis Notre Dame, Paris 4. Construction XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth century, rehabilitation by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc. / Bridgeman Images

DCR4553296: Detail of the west facade of the Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris, Paris 4., Ducros, Mathieu / Bridgeman Images

LBY4553086: The square of the Memorial de la Shoah, 17 rue Geoffroy l'Asnier, Paris 4. Architect Antoine Jouve, Simon Vignaud, 2005. / Bridgeman Images

OMG4553153: La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (Spain). Architect Antoni Gaudi, 1882. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4553013: Cathedrale Notre Dame des Anges, 555 West Temple Street, Los Angeles (California, USA). Architect Rafael Moneo, 2002., Moneo, Jose Rafael (b.1937) / Bridgeman Images

MDA4553039: Cathedrale Notre Dame des Anges, 555 West Temple Street, Los Angeles (California, USA). Architect Rafael Moneo, 2002., Moneo, Jose Rafael (b.1937) / Bridgeman Images

OMG4553120: La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (Spain). Architect Antoni Gaudi, 1882. / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553815: Detail of the scene of the weighing of souls to the eardrum of the portal of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris. A huge hairy devil wears on the flower of the scales to try to take the soul to Hell. This scene was restored by Geoffroy-Dechaume in 1851 Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIeme, XIIIeme, XIXeme, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553828: On the foothills surrounding the portal, four bas-reliefs from the 13th century represent biblical scenes. Here, Job on his manure, surrounds his wife and friends. Notre Dame de Paris Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXeme, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553784: The Porte Rouge and adjacent chapels on the north side of the choir of the Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXeme, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553847: On the left floor of the portal of the Coronation of the Virgin, four panels represent the sagebrush, walnut, ivy and rose hips. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXeme, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553860: Notre Dame de Paris Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXeme, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553875: Oculi with radiant network of the Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris, invention by Viollet-le-Duc. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553924: Detail of the ornamentation of the left stool of the Saint-Etienne portal at the south arm of the transept of the Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris, circa 1258. Evokes the techniques of goldsmith as these patterns of cupules decorated with flowers, including lilies in the Revolution. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553920: Detail of the lower lintel of the eardrum of the Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris: Saint Etienne, held by a Roman soldier of African origin, is taken to the Sanhedrin to be a judge. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4554040: The grand organ in 1992, restoration by Jean-Loup Boisseau, Bertrand Cattiaux, Philippe Emeriau, Michel Giroud and the company Synaptel. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4554100: The 19th century glazing in the high windows of the choir pays tribute to the eveques initiators of the Gothic Cathedrale. Eudes de Sully keeps the model of the facade from which he saw the beginning of the 12th century., (text from the book “La grace d'une cathedrale” by Mgr Joseph Dore, Mgr Andre Twenty-Trois et Collectif) Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIème, XIIIème, XIXeme, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

TEC4554130: Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, 1 rue de Rohan, Strasbourg (Bas Rhin, Alsace region, France). Construction between 1176 and 1439. / Bridgeman Images

ITR4554037: The grand organ in 1992, restoration by Jean-Loup Boisseau, Bertrand Cattiaux, Philippe Emeriau, Michel Giroud and the company Synaptel. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4554043: With five keyboards, 109 games and nearly 8000 pipes, the great organ of Notre-Dame is one of the most important in France and probably the most famous in the world.Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

TEC4554103: Saint Bernadette Church in Nevers (Nievre, France). Architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, 1965. / Bridgeman Images

ITR4554109: The very spacious grandstands of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris lead to surprising degagements on the high ship and perspectives degaged in height. Most of the capitals date back to the twelfth century in the choir, as well as the vaults that take up the triangular part of the lower ambulatory. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553631: Stained glass details - Sainte Genevieve protects farm workers from the rain that threatens to destroy the crop. Notre Dame de Paris Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXeme, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553690: The northern fence of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris tells the life of Jesus: Les Noces de Cana Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553748: Surrounded by a fine cord of aubepines, the scene of the Coronation of the Virgin on the eardrum of the Red Door (ca. 1260), Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXeme, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images

ITR4553863: Notre Dame de Paris Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXeme, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images