Amiens Before and During the War

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Nearly all contain works of art by a local sculptor very well known in Picardy: Nicolas Blasset (1600-1659).

The following are of especial interest:

I. South Aisle:

Third chapel (Annunciation—D1 on plan); on the altar, bas-relief by Blasset, representing The Annunciation;

Fourth chapel (Assumption—D2 on plan); on the altar, fine Virgin by Blasset (The Assumption).

II. North Aisle:

Second chapel (Our Lady of Help—D3 on plan); on the altar screen, Virgin and child trampling on serpent representing Death (Blasset);

Third chapel (St. Saviour’s—D4 on plan): tall Byzantine Christ of wood known as “St. Saviour”;

Fifth chapel (Our Lady of Peace—D5 on plan): Virgin by Blasset.

Against the pillar which separates the fifth and sixth chapels is the funeral monument of Jean de Sachy, Sheriff of Amiens, and his wife, one of Blasset’s finest masterpieces. Both the deceased are represented kneeling before the Virgin, to whom they are made known by John the Baptist.