#François Baillairgé

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Notre-Dame Basilica in the historic district of Old Montreal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The interior of the church is amongst the most dramatic in the world and regarded as a masterpiece of Gothic Revival architecture. Architect François Baillairgé designed the interior decoration and choir 1785-95; facade and vault decoration, 1818.

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Morrin Centre, Quebec City. By François Baillairgé. [OC][6150x4100]

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Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal! What a beautiful site. #notredamemontreal #1672 #François Baillairgé (at Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1xDnGAl-YL/?igshid=61739zsnlv3m

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Notre-Dame-des-Victoires is a small Roman Catholic stone church in the Lower Town of Quebec City. Construction was started in 1687 on site of Samuel De Champlain's habitation and was completed in 1723. Originally dedicated to l'Enfant Jésus, it received the name Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire following the Battle of Quebec of 1690, in which an English expedition commanded by William Phips was forced to retreat. In 1711, its name was changed again, to Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, after bad weather had sunk a British fleet commanded by Hovenden Walker. The church was largely destroyed by the British bombardment that preceded the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in September 1759. A complete restoration of the church was finished in 1816. François Baillairgé, architect, remodeled the facade of the church in 1916-17. Source: Wikipedia #travel #globalgypsy #details #traveladdict #traveladdicts #traveladdiction #portofcall #wander #ARTchitecture #godisinthedetails #wandering #photoart #awesome #art #Canada #awe #FotoQuartet #QuébecCity #Québec #Quebec #QuebecCity #VieuxQuébec #YQB #October #Pumpkin #gourd #church #NotreDamedesVictoires (at Vieux Québec) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bol4JlFnD8C/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u884v2v3ny0x

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Montreal, Quebec Canada Notre-Dame Basilica (French: Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal) is a basilica in the historic district of Old Montreal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The church is located at 110 Notre-Dame Street West, at the corner of Saint Sulpice Street. It is located next to the Saint-Sulpice Seminary and faces the Place d'Armes square. Built in the Gothic Revival style, the church is highly decorated. The vaults are coloured deep blue and decorated with golden stars, and the rest of the sanctuary is decorated in blues, azures, reds, purples, silver, and gold. It is filled with hundreds of intricate wooden carvings and several religious statues. Unusual for a church, the stained glass windows along the walls of the sanctuary do not depict biblical scenes, but rather scenes from the religious history of Montreal. It also has a Casavant Frères pipe organ, dated 1891, which comprises four keyboards, 92 stops using electropneumatic action and an adjustable combination system, 7000 individual pipes and a pedal board. In 1657, the Roman Catholic Sulpician syndicate arrived in Ville-Marie, now known as Montreal; six years later the seigneury of the island was vested in them. They ruled until 1840. The parish they founded was dedicated to the Holy Name of Mary, and the parish church of Notre-Dame was built on the site in 1672. François Baillairgé, an architect, designed the interior decoration and choir 1785-95; facade & vault decoration, 1818. The church served as the first cathedral of the Diocese of Montreal from 1821 to 1822. By 1824 the congregation had completely outgrown the church, and James O'Donnell, an Irish-American Anglican from New York City, was commissioned to design the new building. O'Donnell was a proponent of the Gothic Revival architectural movement, and designed the church as such. He is the only person buried in the church's crypt. O'Donnell converted to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed perhaps due to the realization that he might not be allowed to be buried in his church. #canadianwesttoeastroadtrip2018 (at Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal)

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Stained Glass of Cathédrale de Notre-Dame de Québec (Québec, 2011) by Gustavo Thomas Via Flickr: Interiors of Cathédrale de Notre-Dame de Québec (Québec, 2011) Des architectes et des artistes de renom ont travaillé à la reconstruction, à l'agrandissement et au décor intérieur de l'édifice : Claude Baillif, Gaspard Chaussegros de Léry, Jean, François et Thomas Baillairgé, Raoul Chênevert et plusieurs autres. Après l’incendie de 1922, le décor du chœur a été refait, tel qu’il avait été conçu par François Baillairgé au XVIIIe siècle : le baldaquin, chef d’œuvre de l’artiste, le dais épiscopal et le maître-autel. Parmi ses trésors, la cathédrale renferme aussi la cathèdre de l’évêque, réalisée par Lauréat Vallière, un sculpteur exceptionnel ainsi qu’une lampe du sanctuaire offerte par Louis XIV. On y retrouve de magnifiques vitraux réalisés par la Maison Meyer de Munich et la Maison Champigneulle de Paris qui représentent des scènes de la vie de la Vierge Marie ainsi que des saints et des saintes. La cathédrale renferme trois orgues Casavant.