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Early 13th-century gothic church features gargoyles and slender columns topped by the famous 14th-century Jacquemart Clock.

Viollet-le-Duc was the first architect since the Middle Ages to reach a profound understanding of the principles of Gothic construction and he devoted his careful scrutiny to the structure of Notre-Dame. The tall, monolithic and incredibly thin colonettes which support the apse vaults he describes as "splender pins, as strongs as if they were of cast iron, thanks to the quality of the stone employed".

The building dates from the second quarter of the thirteenth century. A rather unusual anecdote related by the Dominican Etienne de Bourbon gives the date of 1240 for near completion. A certain usurer of Dijon, walking beneath the west façade, was killed by the fall of one of the gargoyles.

Condition:
Printed upon fine, hand-made, laid paper bearing the 'Arches' watermark and with full margins as published in the signed limited edition of one hundred in Paris in 1926. Signed with Logan's monogramme in the plate and signed and numbered, '31/100' in pencil by the artist along the lower margin.

Price:
Sold - The price is no longer available. The artist biography and information pertaining to this work of art has been written and designed by Greg & Connie Peters.