Amiens Cathedral
Date
begun 1220
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View in Mapping Gothic
Basilique Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens
Detail: south choir, choir screen of Saint-Firmin
Detail: south choir, choir screen of Saint-Firmin
Detail: south choir, carved effigy of bishop Ferry de Beauvoir
Detail: south choir, carved effigy of bishop Adrien de Henencourt
Detail: south choir, carved effigy of bishop Adrien de Henencourt
Detail: south choir, choir screen of Saint-Firmin
Detail: south choir, choir screen of Saint-Firmin
Detail: south choir, the beheading of Saint-Firmin
Detail: south choir, carved effigy of bishop Adrien de Henencourt
Detail: south choir, carved effigy of bishop Adrien de Henencourt
Detail: southeast transept, choir screen depicting the life of Saint-Jacques
Detail: southeast transept, choir screen depicting the life of Saint-Jacques
Detail: north choir, carved niche depicting the martyrdom of Saint-Jean
Detail: north choir, carved niche depicting the martyrdom of Saint-Jean
Detail: north choir, carved niche depicting the life of Saint-Jean
Detail: north choir, carved niche depicting the baptism of Christ by Saint-Jean
Detail: north nave, easternmost bay aisle window
Detail: north nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: north nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: north nave, aisle window
Detail: north nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: north nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: north nave, aisle window
Detail: north nave, aisle window
Detail: north nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: north nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: north nave, aisle window
Detail: north nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: north nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: north nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: north nave, westernmost bay aisle window
Detail: northwest tower piers and sculptural niches
Detail: northwest tower piers and sculptural niches
Detail: northwest tower piers and sculptural niches
Detail: northwest tower piers and sculptural niches
Detail: northwest tower piers and sculptural niches
Detail: northwest tower piers and sculptural niches
Detail: south nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: south nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: south nave, westernmost bay carved niche
Detail: south nave, westernmost bay carved niche
Detail: south nave, interbay carved niche
Detail: upper choir south triforium, westernmost bay
Detail: radiating chapels blind trefoil arcading
Detail: radiating chapels blind trefoil arcading
Detail: radiating chapels blind trefoil arcading
Detail: radiating chapels blind trefoil arcading
Detail: Baroque high altar, reliquary box of Saint-Firmin
Detail: east choir, hemicycle figural boss stone
Detail: east choir, hemicycle figural boss stone
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: west rose
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium
Detail: choir triforium, hemicycle
Detail: choir triforium, hemicycle
Detail: south transept rose.
Detail: blind trefoil arcading
Detail: north transept, tympanum of Saint-Honoré portal
Detail: north transept, tympanum of Saint-Honoré portal
Detail: north transept, tympanum of Saint-Honoré portal
Detail: north transept, tympanum of Saint-Honoré portal
Detail: north transept, tympanum of Saint-Honoré portal
Detail: north transept, tympanum of Saint-Honoré portal
Detail: north transept, tympanum of Saint-Honoré portal
Detail: north transept, tympanum of Saint-Honoré portal
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal misc. sculptures
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal misc. sculptures
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal misc. sculptures
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal misc. sculptures
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal misc. sculptures
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal misc. sculptures
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal misc. sculptures
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal misc. sculptures
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal misc. sculptures
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal misc. sculptures
Detail: north transept, Saint-Honoré portal base
Detail: north transept, central trumeau pedestal, Saint-Honoré portal
Detail: north transept, central trumeau pedestal, Saint-Honoré portal
Monster
Adolescentula and male figure with hat
Adolescentula
Man in long pilgrim's robe
Two heads with one bonnet--one man holds open book
Man with long beard wearing a greatcoat
Man looks up from reading book
Elegant young woman with little dog
Crouching monster
Young man with unusual belt--holding arms of family Boubers-d'Abbeville?
Man presents book to viewer
Harp player
Trumpet player (herald) of the city of Amiens
Young man (woman?) with roundel with image of noblemen
Samson and lion
Centaur
A minstrel. This was where musicians sat
Crouching monster
Usurer or money changer
Scribe?
Master mason with his square
Tailleur d'images working on small statue of a saint with closed book
The old drunkard: goblet in left hand; in right une cane couverte
Churchman wearing surplice holding book
Young mother and child
Angel with shield
Adolescentula in foreground, praying woman behind
Dog in mendicant's hooded robe
Veiled kneeling woman with rosary and book. Spectacles?
Artisan at workbench--a barrel or bin maker?
Man and his dog
Fool eating out of large bowl
Fool with his children
Man with bicorn hat and shield with mask
Woman beggar carrying baby (now broken)
Woman carrying two buckets
Woman with baskets--produce from Hortillonages?
Woman with coiffe dite d'Ane de Bretagne holding rabbit
Schoolmaster
Mendicant with young woman making confession
Young man with bird
Butcher--sticks knife in neck of animal
Young man--perhaps once held an arquebus
Mère sotte--simple matron stirring pot
Angel bearing shield
Beggar
Young coquine listening
Bagpipe player
Young man's jouissance
Bearded man carrying basket of fruit
Baker wearing heavy imbricated collar; basket with round loaves
Renard the fox as mendicant preaching in front of 4 cocks and 2 hens
Apothecary with mortar and pestle
Young woman in bulky dress stabs herself
Two untonsured clerks singing from choir book
Young man with turban and banderole
Young robed man with dog
Adolescentula
Male figure with staff; male figure with turban-like hat
Wetnurse
Old man with bonnet
Child with toy riding horse
Young woman--praying?
Bearded man turning to his left to interact with neighbor
Thinly-clad man showing a coin, a hem (orle), and a death's head
Thinly-clad young man
Hercules slaying the hydra of Lerne
Hercules slaying the lion of Nemea. Now broken off
Woman selling fruit
The most grotesque of all the fools
Another apothecary
Pretty washerwoman
Hermit
A nun? Distracted?
Man holding a halberd (axe)
Man in bonnet (Phrygian cap?) holding banderole
La fillette--unusual hairdo. Holding decorated pot--Mary Magdalen?
Young man giving her the eye
Young man drinking
Le bon pâté!
La baigneuse
Huchier (carpenter)--perhaps one of the workers of the stalls
Kneeling young woman with furred robe. Smiles at passers by.
Pilgrim with staff and rosary
Young woman crying
Tailleur d'images. Pot under his workbench. The name TRUPIN carved on edge of handrest.
Adolescentula
Old man wearing bonnet
Kneeling person--broken off
Painter (woman?) with diptych
Brigand armed with bill hook
Une gracieuse petite personne
Young man kneeling--at prayer?
Wife who beats her husband with her distaff
Old rich bourgeois
Kneeling boy at prayer
Young mother; midwife?
Child holding shield with three shields
Le monnoyer striking coins
Maid packing mistress's dress in travel box
Dressmaker cutting cloth
Double-headed person holding bucket
Idiot or fool
Man with sword and shield
Man killing little dragon
Child in long robe
Adolescentula