Le Stryge – Notre-Dame Chimera Gargoyle Statue | 3D Print STL

The most famous stone face in Paris, watching the city from the towers of Notre-Dame. Strictly speaking it is not a gargoyle — gargoyles are waterspouts — but a chimera, one of the creatures the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc added to the upper gallery of Notre-Dame during his 19th-century restoration. Le Stryge, "the vampire", sits with its chin in its hands, tongue out, wings folded, staring over the rooftops. A photograph taken beside it in 1853 made it one of the most recognisable sculptur…

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