Notre-Dame et Les Bouquinistes - Alexei Jawdokimov - Framed Print - 12"H x 16"W

Notre-Dame et Les Bouquinistes - Alexei Jawdokimov - Framed Print - 12"H x 16"W

Alexei Jawdokimov is a Russian-British Painter

Alexei was brought up on a kolhoz (collective farm), but spent many of his childhood years in various concentration camps across Europe. He came to England in 1950 by way of Germany with his mother, who was a World War II refugee. 

He studied at the Somerset College of Art. He learnt to fly with the RAF, after he formed a Russian Cossack Dance Company which toured Britain. He also began to act, mostly in minor roles for television. Film parts then followed and he can count amongst his credits films including ‘Music Lovers’, ‘The Tamarind Seed’ and ‘The Eagle Has Landed’.

Notre-Dame de Paris also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris. The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, and is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world.

The cathedral treasury contains a reliquary which houses some of Catholicism's most important relics, including the purported Crown of Thorns, a fragment of the True Cross, and one of the Holy Nails.

Notre-Dame suffered desecration during the French Revolution when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed.