Amiens Cathedral
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- Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Cormont and Renaud de Cormont, Amiens Cathedral, Amiens, France, begun 1220. Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris
Please note: at 3:36 we say that Mary was visited by Elizabeth. The Gospel of Luke 1:39-45 states that Mary visited Elizabeth.
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I love the respectful way that you treat religious subjects. Thank you for treating all things with the reverence they deserve.
Your videos on Catholic cathedrals are very well done. I appreciate that you use correct religious terms and actually state the theology behind the art and architecture. As a devout Catholic I am so pleased to see these programs treat our Church in a respectful and truthful manner. Thank you and God bless you and your work.
The last minute of the video about the geometry of the Cathedral shows just how brilliant the architects were. It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Definitely the most beautiful place on earth!
currently binging all your cathedral videos. these buildings are breathtaking
@Dave OfGod a retired construction worker rebuilt the Stonehenge in his backyard with no electric tools just leverage so I would say these things are possible
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@@davidbasset7557 can i have his name? That's so sick
I can't believe that entire doorway was originally meant to be painted...that would be spectacular to see it as originally intended!
At night Amien does a light show that shows how the cathedral was painted. It is unbelievable. There are videos out there of the illumination.
Oh I just can't get enough of these!! So astonishingly wonderful!
Please!! More on these Gothic Cathedrals in France!! Pretty please!!
Im surprised that church didn't get obliterated in ww1 during the battle of amians between the french and germans
Why France ? try Leon cathedral in Spain. It´s just the next step to radiant Gothic. It´s very possible that Amiens architec travelled to Leon and designed a even more perfect cathedral.. Sorry my poor english
Nous avons en France beaucoup plus de cathédrales que dans les autre pays européens.
Strasbourg,Chartres,Paris,Bourges,Reims,Beauvais,Clermont-Ferrand,Sens,Lyon,Orléans,Bayeux,Rouen,Saint-Omer,Noyon,Soissons etc!!!
@@jean-luchochart6960 Je ne parle pas français.
Their voices are so calming
You've made such a good job combining beauty and information.
Congratulations and many thanks.
I was at the top of the entrance's north tower in 2010 and saw a man overlooking the church, who looked so deeply content that I had to talk to him. He turned out to be the director of the cathedral's restoration. He told me that he visited it from Paris more than ten years before, and "the cathedral entered me." He never left. Thanks for showing many of its details.
Sorry I missed this cathedral, passing through Amiens many times in my youth.
Hi Smarthistory.
I'm from Spain and in a few days I will be taking exams prior to university here in Spain. One of the subjects, of course, is Art, and I couldn't be more thankful for entering and watching all your videos guys. You do some great job in analysing and reviving any piece of art, whether that may be good or bad.
As a result, I think the best way to compensate for all your great job is to translate some videos into Spanish. I would gladly invest my time and effort in doing so! Thank you guys so much.
Great video. Thank you so much. I'm from Amiens and I love my cathedral so much !
So beautiful. I heard of this cathedral .wow.
Awesomely and eternally beautiful! Thankful!
These are wonderful as always. Please give some Romanesque churches the same treatment! :)
As a Pickard from America that has traced his genealogy back to the 1300s in Picardy, I feel so blessed by this video, to see the Cathedral that my ancestors would have visited. Thank you thank you thank you
this was beautiful to see
just wonderful. I love you guys!
Thank you, we appreciate you reaching out.
Gracias por este análisis y lectura de obra Monumental en nuestra historia humana.
What an amazing breakdown. I wish to learn to observe art like you giys
these are so helpful and informative thank you!
👍This is a truly outstanding video. Although I've heard references to different architectural details, such as the clerestory, I've never been quite sure what they were. Highlighting the various architectural components was very helpful.
As others have said, I also appreciate how you related the architecture to the underlying religious beliefs. Congratulations on producing a wonderful video.
I’ve begged I’ve prayed for you both to do the same for La Sagrada Familia!
Please please please
You both are the only ones left to bring out the truth the love the beauty of our past that was embedded into the walls of these cathedrals
All we have now are just pics of people in awe looking at their own ignorance of history and all the symbolism!
Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much
Excellent teachers with very good diction!
very nice voices
Absolutely mind boggling!!!! Stunning!
Why does someone dislike anything from this amazing channel?
You guys are awesome God Bless you both!
More brilliant, good work done.bravo!!
It is not until now that I realize you guys personally visited all these places. If that’s the case I envy you guys. that would be my dream come true. I’ve been watching your videos and they are really really great and informative. Thank you very much and I hope to see more videos from you.
We feel it is important to discuss the work as we experience directly and so we really are on site, standing before the works of art, in almost all cases. The exceptions are when a work of art has been destroyed or is in a war zone, or simply not accessible. In those cases we try to work with an expert who has visited the work.
@@smarthistoryvideoswow. That's really wonderful. Makes me feel privileged to be able to watch these videos. Thank you so much!
You have done something so beautiful that I believe you will be blessed !
Wow, blows my mind
This is the first time that I have experienced your videos. I am hooked. Spent a week in Amien and every day visited the Cathedral. Did you know that there are five Notre Dame Cathedrals and Amiens is the largest? Thanks for the history and detail in your presentation. It is so much better than seeing pictures and hearing "It is pretty." I want historical details and facts!
Great video. Love the detailed presentation. So many elements of the iconography bring back all the rich myths of ancient egiptian religion.
Cathedrale Of Amiens is the best Cathedrale in France and in Europe
How would you feel if it were to be coloured as it was originally? It must have been stunning.
Quite lovely . I appreciate the art and architecture information, and also the respect and reverence toward the subject.
Beautiful!
thank you for your amazing video! It gave me a lot of help for studying art history!
An amazing presentation right there! 🥰🥰
Wow - very nicely done
Thanks for this!
Wonderful presentation! Wish I had watched this, and your others, before I visited the great French cathedrals a few months ago. Nevertheless, it’s great to re-live the experiences through your enlightening work. Thanks!
Loving these! Would love a video on Sainte Chapelle!
Beautiful narration!
Magistral. Só analisando cada detalhe se pode entender o significado profundo de cada detalhe. Muito bom. Venham as catedris de Milºao e de Praga pf,.
Great analysis, graphics and visuals!
Thanks that was awesome
Beautiful job. Thank you (s). Why don't they repaint these statues?
It's a good question. One reason is that if you repainted you would lose the original paint that survives. And then there is the fact that we don't know precisely when the original paint would have looked like or what the original colors were. There would be significant guesswork. And then finally, there is the philosophical concern known as the ship of Theseus.
beautiful
very well done!
I love the way the speakers sound hushed, as if they were commentating on a golf tournament.
Ha! We record on location. We try to be respectful of those in the church. We hope this gives our viewers a sense of what is it like to be there.
@@smarthistoryvideos Yes, it does give that sense.
Thank you very interesting. Re the bit at the end about dimensions 50 cubits is not the same as 50 foot, it's more like 75 foot.
There are several Gothic Cathedrals in Spain, as well.
Did someone ever saw the document: Amiens , la cathédrale en couleurs ( Amiens , a colored cathedral.) The original colors were projected , once , on the stones , to give the cathedral its original look.
Great video
Excellent exposition. I first saw the outside of Amien cathedral when I was 17 but have never been inside. I wonder what happened to all the medieval glass in the clerestory. Was it a casualty of the revolution or maybe World War One?
Look like a giant artery. Of breathe of air and sunshine. It truly. Is beautiful. And aware.
In the Dormition Mary is sleeping and the 12 apostles put her gently down. In the Ascension, she is elevated, lift, by angels. If when looking at a sculpture group you don´t know if it´s a dormition or the ascesión, you need to locate the angels, they would lift her to the heavens (ascension means to elevate) because they can fly. But if you do not see winged--men, then, most likely it's the dormition.
Watch it again in Christmas 2020 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎉🎉🎉🌹
Our era has the Freedom Tower.
More videos about architecture pls.
Stunning building! The vault web looks to be in a parlous state :(
Smarthistory can you guys make more videos about cathedral architecture
see our videos on Reims, Chartres, Paris, St. Denis, Durham, St. Pauls, Lincoln, Wells, Henry VII, Gloucester, St. Peter's and so many more. But yes, we will make even more...
@smarthistory, could you please explain what the decoration underneath the jams pedestals means? Not only here in Amiens, but in Charter, Paris... jams happen to stand over people, kings, demons, animals... I have not been lucky finding the meaning of this decoration underneath the pedestal, in the consola, means... In any case, thanks so much for your videos, they are just wonderful!
Finally. You have no idea how important your video will become!
excellent
It'd be interesting to see this contrasted with the Hindu temple at Madurai.
We have an essay on the Meenakshi Temple at Madurai. Learn more about that temple here: smarthistory.org/meenakshi-madurai/
Good job
I'm planning to visit Amiens from Paris. How far is the Cathedral from the railway station?
Not a long walk, less than ten minutes.
not to nitpick on such an excellent video (and excellent channel) but wasn't it Mary who visited Elizabeth and not the other way around?
Thank you for pointing this out. You are of course correct. This is what we get for recording without a script at the cathedral!
@@smarthistoryvideosno worries. As I said it's really just a nitpick. The whole channel is excellent and I could spend hours watching your very informative videos. Cheers!
As much as Notre Dame is an important building, it is outflanked by many cathedrals in France, including Amiens.
GUARD ALL CATHERDALS
What of the surviving stained glass?
Why are the front towers different heights? Everything else is meticulously symmetrical.
It is quite common for towers not to match in Gothic cathedrals. They were often raised later than the rest of the church and one was often started after the other was complete or nearly so. See Chartres as an example. In other cases one might fall over time or become destabilized and had to be replaced at an even later date. Over time of course styles changed and that new style won out over visual consistency.
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The demon tipping the scale, though... What a little jerk! lol.
There was a lot to learn in / appreciate about this video. 🙂
There's not so much emphasis on the virgin Mary in my faith as I understand it, so hearing about the events in her right portal (e.g. dormition) was interesting! This is one of my favorite portrayals of her holding Jesus so far - it's sweet and natural, but still powerful.
Lots more to say, would never make it inside, etc. 😂
St. Michael is wise to that little imp so no worries. Amiens is a huge magnificent treat inside and out. We are glad you found the video valuable.
@@smarthistoryvideos lol! That's a relief. Your content's always amazing. I appreciate the knowledge, humor, and creativity Smarthistory adds to my day. 💕
Imagine the impact if it was all stained glass, and the figures were all re-painted. Why dont they do it?
Good question 🤔
Maybe the costs or something else, I don't know.
'Cause of the french conservation rules.
Amien
BigDaddy dropped this one on a Sunday in July..
French subtitles ? ...(La langue officielle est encore le français à Amiens et en Picardie)
We would love to add French subtitles. Can you help?
Je ne pratique pas l'anglais, c'est la raison pour laquelle je souhaitais les sous-titres ... Quoi-qu'il en soit, merci de vous intéresser à notre patrimoine.
C'est une chaîne anglophone à la base.
Imagine if someone painted it again today
I think it would be too much but maybe that is because we are not used to it.
quem ta vendo por causa de uma tarefa
outa' site!
And it survived to world wars...
You sound like you are in the church recording your comments in hushed tones.
At the beginning of the video we mention that we are recording at the cathedral.
@@smarthistoryvideos I missed that. Very informative. Nice job.
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Why are we talking in whispering voices ?
We record on location. This particular location is an active church with worshipers who we try to be respectful of. We think this also helps give our viewers a sense of what is it like to be there.
Whispering and vocal volume/pitch change creates interest in the listener. Try it. Speak to someone in normal voice then suddenly drop to a whisper. They will stare at you intently. by the way we spent a week here reminding ourselves of our stupendous European Christian ancestry. We will see our family again.
If they could speak a little bit slowlier ...
Please use the gear icon to slow the video.
What is the name of the beginning music ?