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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Montréal, Québec, Canadaen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1823-1879 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorO'Donnell, Jamesen_US
dc.creatorBourgeau, Victoren_US
dc.date1823-1879en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-20T21:06:42Z
dc.date.available2013-02-20T21:06:42Z
dc.date.issued1823-1879en_US
dc.identifier192981en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1379en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/100266
dc.descriptionView of the prayer chapel in the northwest corner; Notre-Dame Church was raised to the status of basilica by Pope John Paul II during a visit to the city on April 21, 1982. The church's Gothic Revival architecture is among the most dramatic in the world; its interior is grand and colourful, its ceiling is coloured deep blue and decorated with golden stars, and the rest of the sanctuary is a polychrome of blues, azures, reds, purples, silver, and gold. It is filled with hundreds of intricate wooden carvings and several religious statues. The stained glass windows along the walls of the sanctuary depict scenes from the religious history of Montreal. It also has a Casavant Frères pipe organ, which comprises four keyboards, 97 stops, almost 7000 individual pipes and a pedal board. The sanctuary was finished in 1830, and the first tower in 1843. On its completion, the church was the largest in North America. The interior took much longer, and Victor Bourgeau worked on it from 1872 to 1879. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/13/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; stained glassen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectsaintsen_US
dc.subjectMary, Blessed Virgin, Sainten_US
dc.subjectGothic Revivalen_US
dc.titleNotre-Dame Basilicaen_US
dc.title.alternativeBasilique Notre-Dame de Montréalen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-C-M-ND-B34en_US
vra.culturalContextCanadianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling) carving (processes)en_US
vra.worktypebasilicaen_US
vra.worktypechurchen_US
dc.contributor.displayJames O’Donnell (Canadian architect, 1774-1830); Victor Bourgeau (Canadian architect, 1809-1888)en_US


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