Semiotics is used in the sphere of visual arts as a tool that helps reading the message included in a certain work. Gothic architecture, as an outcome of the rich cultural context of medieval tradition, where metaphysics, numbers and geometry were indispensable tools to symbolically manifest cosmological and theological concepts, is suggested as a good example for testing this approach in the field of architecture.

In this paper, a semiotic reading for one of the most distinguished works of this era; i.e., the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, is introduced as a model for this methodology. Among many message included in the building, such as the functional or the technical messages, this is a trial to introduce a reading, i.e., an interpretation, of what could be called “a hidden spiritual message”. The paper comes to a conclusion that the Gothic cathedral, as represented in Notre Dame de Paris, might be perceived as an externalization of a standing hymn that was meant to send continuous appeals of protection to Heaven.

符号学在视觉艺术领域被用作帮助阅读特定作品中包含的信息的工具。哥特式建筑是中世纪传统丰富文化背景的产物，其中形而上学、数字和几何学是象征性地表现宇宙学和神学概念的不可或缺的工具，被建议作为在建筑领域测试这种方法的一个很好的例子。

在这篇论文中，对这个时代最杰出的作品之一进行了符号学解读；即，巴黎圣母院的大教堂被引入作为这种方法的模型。在建筑物中包含的许多信息中，例如功能性或技术性信息，这是一次尝试引入阅读，即对可以称为“隐藏的精神信息”的解释。该论文得出的结论是，以巴黎圣母院为代表的哥特式大教堂可能被视为一首常设赞美诗的外化，旨在向天堂发出持续的保护呼吁。