Saint-Pierre de Montmartre Reliefs - Paris, France - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This church is nearly 900 years old...it is the oldest church in Paris. This website (visit link) informs us:
"The three western doors, depicting Saint-Dominique, Saint-Peter and the Virgin Mary, were sculpted by the Italian Gismondi in 1980."

Each door has 8 panels, each with a different scene featuring the Biblical personage mentioned above.
Wikipedia hass a brief article in Italian about the artist Tommaso Gismondi (1906-2003) (visit link)

As for the Church, Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:

"The Church of Saint Peter of Montmartre (French: église Saint-Pierre de Montmartre) is the lesser known of the two main churches on Montmartre in Paris, the other being the 19th-century Sacré-Cœur Basilica. Historically, however, it has the greater claim to fame, since, according to the earliest biography of Saint Ignatius Loyola, the church is the location at which the vows were taken that led to the founding of the Society of Jesus.
Though according to its traditional history, it was founded by Saint Denis in the third century, only scattered signs of Gallo-Roman occupation have been detected at the much-disturbed site,[1] where Théodore Vacquier, the first municipal archaeologist of Paris, identified remains of walling as belonging to the Temple of Mars, from which Montmartre took its name.[2] In 1657, the antiquary and local historian Henri Sauval was shown remains in the priory garden that he associated with the templum Martis. The early church[3] that was a stop in the ninth century for pilgrims en route for the Saint Denis Basilica,[4] belonged in 1096 to the comte de Melun. Louis VI purchased it in 1133, in order to establish in it a Benedictine Abbey, and the Merovingian church was rebuilt; it was reconsecrated by Pope Eugenius III in 1147, in a splendid royal ceremony where Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter, Abbot of Cluny acted as acolytes."

Your impression of the sculpture?: Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 01/01/1980 Where is this sculpture?: 2 rue du Mont-Cenis Paris, Île-de-France France F-75018 Sculptors Name: Tommaso Gismondi Website for sculpture?: Not listed

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