The gallery holds statues of twenty-eight Kings of Israel. http://galleries.fototagger.com/link.php?action=detailimage&id=495&sort=0 Who can help me to find their names?
Thank you.
2006-10-25 01:27:33 · 2 answers · asked by Borislav K 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The gallery of Kings was intended to represent the 28 Old Testament Kings from whom it was believed that Chirst had directly descended, but it was certainly meant also to suggest the current king of France (Louis VII) and his illustrious anscestors, right back to Clovis. Now the two great powers in society, church and nobility, could be seen to have come together to form an all-powerful unity in the name of God and the Virgin Mary.
The identity of the figures in the Gallery of Kings at Notre-Dame was for long uncertain, since their heads had been struck off during the Revolution. The discovery of 21 of the original heads in 1977 established that they were not kings of Judah, as had at one time been thought, but kings of France from Childebert I (511-588) to Philippe Auguste (1180-1223). The heads are now in the Musée de Cluny.
2006-10-25 03:09:08 · answer #1 · answered by JohnRingold 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 'gallery of kings' shows the baptism of Clovis I, King of France, and his 28 successors (up to that time). So, they are Kings of France, in order, starting with Clovis I. See the Clovis I succession on the sidebar of the first link below.
2006-10-25 08:42:46 · answer #2 · answered by moore850 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋