Much as been written and said about the grand reopening and restoration of France's Notre Dame, perhaps the world’s most famous cathedral, but for its famous gargoyles this is far from their ...

The actual gargoyles, which are monster-shaped ... In 1792, revolutionaries also decapitated 28 statues from Notre Dame’s facade, mistaking them for French monarchs. They were actually ancient ...

Notre Dame's priceless artifacts included much of the building itself, such as its famous gargoyles ... more than a dozen statues were removed for scheduled cleaning and restoration and thus ...

Firefighters saved the towers — famously featured in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Some of the limestone gargoyles and grotesques ... The 16 copper statues below the spire, which represent ...

What’s more, the statue of the 14th-century Virgin with Child was also rescued from the blaze and now sits firmly in the newly restored church. Notre Dame is slated to officially reopen on Dec ...

It has taken hundreds of compagnons, France's artists and craftspeople, to pull off a restoration so fast, so meticulous, and ...

Copper statues luckily removed for restoration ... provoking successive generations to adapt Notre-Dame by removing stained glass and gargoyles, and adding tapestries, whitewash and neoclassical ...

It may be a surprise to learn that the gruesome faced statues most of us associate with Notre-Dame are not gargoyles, and that the majority of these statues were carved after the publication of Victor ...

It may be a surprise to learn that the gruesome faced statues most of us associate with Notre-Dame are not gargoyles, and that the majority of these statues were carved after the publication of ...