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Place de Fourvière (5e)
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La Vierge Dorée

The Golden Virgin

Joseph-Hugues Fabisch
1852

Description

Gilded bronze statue of the Immaculate Conception on the top of the tower of the chapel on the south side of the basilica of Notre-Dame-de-Fourvière. The statue is 5.6 m/18 ft. tall.

Lyon - La Vierge Dorée

Sculptor

Joseph-Hugues Fabisch (Aix-en-Provence 1812 - Lyon 1886), French sculptor (Wikipedia – Musée du Diocèse de Lyon).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Fourvière.
Séverine Penlou, Rôles et fonctions de la sculpture religieuse à Lyon de 1850 à 1914 (thèse Lyon 2, 2008) (PDF on-line), cat. 151.
Gérald Gambier, Fourvière a symbolist Basilica (Lyon: idc éditions, 2016), p. 20-21.
Catherine de Rivaz, et al., Guide des Madones de Lyon (Lyon, 2008), p. 17-18 and 131.

Locatie (N 45°45'43" - E 4°49'20") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra153; Photograph: 12 August 2018
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