Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Notre-Dame de Dijon
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Preferred Title:
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Notre-Dame de Dijon
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Alternate Title:
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Notre Dame, Dijon
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Image View:
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Upper windows in the apse
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Creator:
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unknown (French)
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Location:
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site: Dijon, Burgundy, France
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Date:
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1220-1250 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Gothic (Medieval)
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Work Type 1:
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church
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Work Type 2:
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stained glass (visual work)
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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stained glass; stone
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); stained glass
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; religious; window: stained glass
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Description:
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The building dates from the first half of the thirteenth century. Viollet-le-Duc studied the structure of Notre-Dame de Dijon. The tall, monolithic and incredibly thin colonettes which support the apse vaults he describes as "splender pins, as strong as if they were of cast iron, thanks to the quality of the stone employed". In 1183-1187 Hugh III granted free status to the inhabitants. The Gothic parish church of Notre-Dame (1220-1250), with a deep narthex, a façade with superimposed galleries and a lantern-tower, became the centre of municipal life; the city clock was installed there in 1386 (Dijon had no town hall before 1500). (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Three
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Identifier:
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1A2-F-D-ND-G9
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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