The Rediscovered Colors of Notre-Dame de Paris fsspx.news

“We know that the cathedral was painted on the outside like any Gothic cathedral, but Viollet-le-Duc estimated that it was also made to be painted on the inside. Perhaps we have proof of what he was saying,” Jonathan Truillet told La Croix on December 21, 2020.

The chief heritage curator is coming back to the discovery of traces of ancient polychromy, discovered during the cleaning of the stone right before the entrance to the Notre-Dame-de-Guadalupe chapel, located on the north aisle of the building: “there are blues, reds, ochres… some Fleurs de Lys with a little gilding and others whose traces are preserved in negative,” specifies Jonathan Truillet…

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