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Abstract
This study of the Portal of the Coronation of the Virgin on the west façade of Notre-Dame is primarily concerned with the problems of identification of two of the monumental statues that formerly stood in the embrasures—those of a pope and a king—and with the related subject matter of the six extant reliefs in the dadoes beneath their former emplacement.1 Since, however, these reliefs and the two statues also constituted an integral part of the iconographic program of the lower portions of the doorway, a brief review of the general subject matter of this Virgin Portal and its architectonic composition is first necessary, as well as a consideration, however summary, of the place of the portal in the sculptural chronology of the west façade.