All Works of Art In Notre Dame SAVED!

That was stashed away long before this fire, though. It's mostly the architecture that people are mourning, I think, not some kitschy Catholic baubles.

Great that they got the artwork out! And now for the restoration of the cathedral...…….

I'm most worried about the windows

The most irreplaceable works of art are the huge stunning thousand year old stained glass windows and those, I'm afraid, are toast.

OP Art? Those are trinkets, the building is the art

It didn't look like all the rose windows were blown out to me. Some.

Also, the cathedral doesn't even need that "main spire".

They were dousing the towers with water through the hole thing, and they are intact, no?

just posting this here

I just hope the walls hold. The roof and ceiling were part of the support system for the walls.

Mon Dieu!

r7. Where you did find this?

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The water constantly spraying on that and its not out? What the hell went wrong there?

I hope Versailles has something better in place to put out an attic fire.

R10 it's from the other thread.

You could see flames in the towers and smoke was pouring out of the top of them so they're unlikely to be unscathed. Also the main structure will be weakened without the roof since the walls require the force of the roof to push against the flying buttresses.

[quote]the Crown of thorns

the FAKE Crown of thorns

That could have burned. Some nun probably put that together in 1300 A.D.

A fake from 1300 AD is a historic relic in itself by 2019 AD, R15.

I thought the fire was a raging inferno? How did they get the works of art out? I’m thinking they were already out for the renovation and stored elsewhere.

I used to go for the veille de Noël in the 80's, before Paris was completely overrun with massive tourism 12 months of the year. It was magical.

All of the windows are gone, lead melts at a low temp.

I find this very hard to believe.

Well, this is a ray of sunshine. Thank God. I’ve been depressed about this. It’s a horrific disaster that will still take 20 years or more to rebuild, but at least this!

OP, What works of art are there? Do you mean relics?

I do too R20. It’s clear the damage is really being underplayed.

I guess I take that back, the damage really doesn’t look that bad. It looks like just the roof suffered.

Macron says it will be rebuilt within 5 years. Hope he can get it done.

What’s the final work on the stained glass?

*word?

Only five years? Sagrada Familia isn't slated for completion until '26.

Sagrada Familia is not an important church.