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Artist
- Name:
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Dates:
- 1814-1879
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Ornaments & patterns
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
- Observations:
- The engraver's mark is a monogram which reads HL. or HU. (?)
Book
- Title:
- Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Publisher:
- Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1875
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Stone cathedra from Saint-Séverin Church, Bordeaux, dating to the late fourteenth century. The seat and the armrests are delicately decorated with openwork design while the front part of the canopy bears a sculpted mitre in its center. A cathedra is the seat of a bishop.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, clerical, Europe, France, Gothic, reference book, sculpture
