Notre-Dame’s famed rose window spared but blaze harms priceless artworks | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Notre-Dame’s famed rose window spared but blaze harms priceless artworks | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By Reuters |Paris |Updated: April 16, 2019 8:35:37 pm

Notre-Dame’s famed rose window spared but blaze harms priceless artworks

Most of the sacramental artefacts in Notre-Dame's treasury - where they were traditionally kept as reserves to be sold off or melted down in times of need - date from the 19th and 20th centuries.

A firefighter tackles the blaze as flames and smoke rise from Notre-Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. (Photo: AP)

Four-hundred-year-old paintings hung high inside Notre-Dame were damaged by the immense fire that engulfed the Paris cathedral, but emergency workers formed a human chain to whisk gem-studded chalices and other priceless artefacts out of harm’s way. Notre-Dame’s famed stained-glass rose windows and most of its many religious relics appeared to have escaped the worst of Monday’s inferno as well, easing fears for the fate of the vast trove of artworks in the 800-year-old gothic cathedral.