Amiens Cathedral
Date
begun 1220
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View in Mapping Gothic
Basilique Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens
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
Adolescentula
Female fox, wolf, or dog with hat and coat
A nun making confession to mendicant (Cordelier)
Maker of clogs
Noah's ark
Abraham offers bread and wine