Cathedral: Norte Dame de Paris, west facade

Paris, France — West façade of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris (Our Lady of Paris), with its 31.5-foot rose window at center, dating from about 1225, behind the Virgin with Child between two angels. Under the balustrade, there is a wide horizontal frieze — the Gallery of Kings — a row of twenty-eight statues representing twenty-eight generations of kings of Judah.