St Firmin baptising, choir screen, Amiens Cathedral
St Firmin baptising the people of Amiens, Gothic style polychrome high-relief sculpture from the funerary monument of Ferry de Beauvoir, 1490, in the first intercolumniation of the choir screen in the south ambulatory, depicting the life of St Firmin, at the Basilique Cathedrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens or Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens, built 1220-70 in Gothic style, Amiens, Picardy, France. St Firmin, 272-303 AD, was the first bishop of Amiens. Amiens Cathedral was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13429930
Media ID
45103607
Size
3784px x 5715px
(7.5MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
