Am 21.04.19 um 01:30 schrieb John:
Seems to me the "wasn't done that way when ND was constructed" argument is going to apply to anything they might be able to do today, which means they're left trying to find the least historically incorrect way of rebuilding.
Then again, those cathedrals have usually been built over periods of several centuries and technologies have evolved during this time. The Cologne cathedral was finished towards the end of the 19th century and by that time roof timbering made of steel was nothing new and so our cathedral has a steel frame below its roof. ND has not only been built over many centuries, it has also been rebuilt at least once. In the 1850's it was almost a ruin, what with the French revolution and a good century of neglect. Much of what we know as today's ND has been re-built at that time following the often quite disneyish ideas of a single guy, including all those medieval looking gargoyles, the turret that was destroyed in the fire and many more embellishments which were never part of the original building. Noone cared if this was authentic in any way. It looked the part, probably more medieval than ever, and the French liked it. So, the concept of authenticity is fluid, at best. This certainly applies to something like a roof construction that almost nobody will ever get to see. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
