Rouen Cathedral (French: Cathédrale primatiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Rouen) is a Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. It is the see of the Archbishop of Rouen, Primate of Normandy.[4] It is famous for its three towers, each in a different style. The cathedral, built and rebuilt over a period of more than eight hundred years, has features from Early Gothic to late Flamboyant and Renaissance architecture.[5][4] It also has a place in art history as the subject of a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, and in architecture history as from 1876 to 1880, it was the tallest building in the world.[6]
RouenCathedral (French: Cathédrale primatiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Rouen) is a Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. It is the see of...
Tournelles museum, and RouenCathedral. Seat of an archdiocese, it also hosts a court of appeal and a university. Every four to six years, Rouen becomes the showcase...
Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, pronounced [ˌkœlnɐ ˈdoːm] , officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is...
Norse: Hrólfr; French: Rollon; died in 933) was a Viking who, as Count of Rouen, became the first ruler of Normandy, a region in today's northern France...
pigment include Claude Monet, who relied on manganese violet in his RouenCathedral series to further his exploration of shadows. Beyond the artistic community...
best-known examples are his series of haystacks (1890–1891), paintings of RouenCathedral (1892–1894), and the paintings of water lilies in his garden in Giverny...
RouenCathedral (begun 1185). The Archbishop of Rouen, Gautier de Coutances, began to reconstruct the Romanesque interior of the newly built Rouen Cathedral...
11th century. Longsword was known at the time as count (Latin comes) of Rouen. Flodoard—always detailed about titles—consistently referred to both Rollo...
cathedral of Rouen began, in the nave, transept, choir, and the lowest section of the lantern tower. On 24 June 1204, Philip Augustus entered Rouen and...
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July respectively. Henry II returned to France and raised the siege of Rouen, where Louis VII had been joined by Henry the Young King after abandoning...
at the abbey of Charroux, but the rest of his body should rest in RouenCathedral. However, during the funeral procession, a member of Henry's household...
the west porch of the Church of Saint-Maclou, Rouen, (c.1500–1514); the west front of Troyes Cathedral (early 16th century), and a very early example...
Half-timbered houses in Rouen Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei Château d'Ételan (1494) Decorated boats in Honfleur harbour RouenCathedral by Claude Monet World War...
is shown in the stained glass windows (c. 1521) and south gate of RouenCathedral and the stained glass windows of the église Saint-Godard (1555). The...
Abbey after her death in 1167, until much later her tomb was moved to RouenCathedral. Matilda was born to Henry I, King of England and Duke of Normandy...
paintings" are well known and notable, and include Haystacks, Water Lilies, RouenCathedrals, Houses of Parliament, Charing Cross Bridge, and Poplar Trees. His...
The Archdiocese of Rouen (Latin: Archidioecesis Rothomagensis; French: Archidiocèse de Rouen) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in...
century were reinterred in RouenCathedral under the authority of Cardinal Bonnechose, archbishop of Rouen. évêque de Rouen . Notice sur la translation...
"Lincoln Cathedral". Retrieved May 5, 2015. Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince (2010), Frommer's England 2010, p. 588 Mary Jane Taber (1905), The cathedrals of...
of ecclesiastical offices, becoming successively canon of RouenCathedral, treasurer of Rouen, and archdeacon of Oxford. King Henry sent him on a number...
the tallest cathedral is Cologne Cathedral (157.4 m) in Cologne, Germany. The tallest Eastern Orthodox, as well as the tallest domed cathedral, will be People's...
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