3363 x 5025 px | 28,5 x 42,5 cm | 11,2 x 16,8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
31 janvier 2008
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Rouen Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen) is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral in Rouen, in northwestern France. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Rouen and Normandy. Gothic except the romanesque crypt: Early gothic: Saint Romain's tower (12th century), side porches of the front, a part of the nave. High gothic: mainworks: nave, transept, choir, first floor of the lantern tower (13th century ), side chapels, lady's chapel, side doorways (14th century) Late gothic (flamboyant ): last storey of Saint Romain's tower (15th century ), butter tower, main porch of the front, two storeys of the lantern tower (16th century ). The Butter Tower was erected in the early 16th century. Butter was banned during Lent and those who did not wish to forgo this indulgence would donate monies of six deniers Tournois from each diocesan for this permission. Rouen Cathedral was the tallest building (the lantern tower with the cast iron spire of the 19th century ) in the world (151 m) from 1876 to 1880. The Rouen Cathedral was the subject for a series of paintings (28 of the front ) by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, who painted the same scene at different times of the day. Two paintings are in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; one is in the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA; one is in the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade; one is in a museum of Cologne; one in the Rouen fine art museum and five in the musée d'Orsay in Paris. The estimated value of one painting is over $40 million. Roy Lichtenstein also made his series of pictures representing the Cathedral's front. Gustave Flaubert was inspired by the stained glass windows of St. Julian and of Salome, basing two of his Three Tales on them. Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote La Cathédrale about the Cathedral, a novel based on an intensive examination of the building.
