Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Feltman, Jennifer M.

Titel

Retracing the Original North Transept of Reims Cathedral

Ist Teil von

• The North Transept of Reims Cathedral, 2016, p.63-88

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This letter from Denis Darcy, one of the successive architects responsible for the upkeep of Reims Cathedral in the nineteenth century, described a historical moment when the west portal of the north transept of Reims Cathedral, the so-called “Porte romane” or Virgin Portal, was cleared of a masonry wall that had completely obscured it from view for an undetermined period of time (Figure 2.1).2 As it 1 Translation by Nancy Wu. Excerpted from an undated letter written by Denis Darcy, diocesan architect since 1888, received by the Ministry of Public Instruction of Fine Arts and Religions on October 14, 1895. Paris, AN, F19/7837. For a complete transcription of the letter, see Appendix. For a brief list of architects working on the cathedral in the nineteenth century and their respective projects, see Henri Jadart and Louis Demaison, Kathedrale von Reims: Ein Meisterwerk Französischer Gothik (Berlin and New York: Bruno Hessling, 1898-1902), vi-ix.