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Basilica of Saint Denis
Basilique Saint-Denis
West façade of Saint Denis
Basic information
Location
Saint-Denis, France
Geographic coordinates
48°56′08″N 2°21′35″E / 48.93556°N 2.35972°E / 48.93556; 2.35972Coordinates: 48°56′08″N 2°21′35″E / 48.93556°N 2.35972°E / 48.93556; 2.35972
Affiliation
Roman Catholic
Province
Diocese of§§ Saint-Denis
Ecclesiastical or organizational status
Cathedral
Status
Active
Leadership
Pascal Delannoy
Architectural description
Architectural type
Church
Architectural style
Gothic
West façade of Saint Denis, before the dismantling of the north tower (c. 1844 – 1845)
The Basilica of Saint Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, or simply Basilique Saint-Denis) is a large medieval abbey church in the city of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris. The building is of unique importance historically and architecturally as its choir, completed in 1144, shows the first use of all of the elements of Gothic architecture.
The site originated as a Gallo-Roman cemetery in late Roman times. The archeological remains still lie beneath the cathedral; the people buried there seem to have had a faith that was a mix of Christian and pre-Christian beliefs and practices.[1] Around 475 St. Genevieve purchased some land and built Saint-Denys de la Chapelle. In 636 on the orders of Dagobert I the relics of Saint Denis, a patron saint of France, were reinterred in the basilica. The relics of St-Denis, which had been transferred to the parish church of the town in 1795, were brought back again to the abbey in 1819.[2]
The basilica became a place of pilgrimage and the burial place of the French Kings with nearly every king from the 10th to the 18th centuries being buried there, as well as many from previous centuries. (It was not used for the coronations of kings, that function being reserved for the Cathedral of Reims; however, French Queens were commonly crowned there.) "Saint-Denis" soon became the abbey church of a growing monastic complex.
In the 12th century the Abbot Suger rebuilt portions of the abbey church using innovative structural and decorative features. In doing so, he is said to have created the first truly Gothic building.[3] The basilica's 13th-century nave is the prototype for the Rayonnant Gothic style, and provided an architectural model for many medieval cathedrals and abbeys of northern France, Germany, England and a great many other countries.
The abbey church became a cathedral in 1966 and is the seat of the Bishop of Saint-Denis, Pascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy. Although known as the "Basilica of St Denis", the cathedral has not been granted the title of Minor Basilica by the Vatican.[4]
Contents
1 Background
2 Dagobert's church
3 Architecture
3.1 The Carolingian church
3.2 The Early Gothic rebuilding
3.2.1 First phase: the west front, c. 1135–40
3.2.2 Second phase: the new choir, 1140–44
3.3 Reconstruction of the nave
3.4 The Valois Mortuary Chapel
3.5 St. Denis and the French Revolution
4 Burial site
4.1 Bourbon crypt
5 Burials
5.1 Kings
5.2 Other royalty and nobility
6 Gallery
7 See also
8 References and sources
9 Further reading
10 External links
Background[edit]
External video
Smarthistory - Birth of the Gothic: Abbot Suger and the Ambulatory at St. Denis[5]
Saint Denis, a patron saint of France, became the first bishop of Paris. He was decapitated on the hill of Montmartre in the mid-third century with two of his followers, and is said to have subsequently carried his head to the site of the current church, indicating where he wanted to be buried. A martyrium was erected on the site of his grave, which became a famous place of pilgrimage during the fifth and sixth centuries.[2]
Dagobert's church[edit]
15th-century painting by the Master of Saint Giles, showing St Giles saying mass before Charlemagne or Charles Martel with what is thought to be a largely accurate view of the abbey with a crux gemmata given by Charles the Bald and gold altar reredos, both destroyed in the Revolution.
Dagobert, the king of the Franks (reigned 628 to 637), refounded the church as the Abbey of Saint Denis, a Benedictine monastery. Dagobert also commissioned a new shrine to house the saint's remains, which was created by his chief councillor, Eligius, a goldsmith by training. An early vita of Saint Eligius describes the shrine:
Above all, Eligius fabricated a mausoleum for the holy martyr Denis in the city of Paris with a wonderful marble ciborium over it marvelously decorated with gold and gems. He composed a crest [at the top of a tomb] and a magnificent frontal and surrounded the throne of the altar with golden axes in a circle. He placed golden apples there, round and jeweled. He made a pulpit and a gate of silver and a roof for the throne of the altar on silver axes. He made a covering in the place before the tomb and fabricated an outside altar at the feet of the holy martyr. So much industry did he lavish there, at the king's request, and poured out so much that scarcely a single ornament was left in Gaul and it is the greatest wonder of all to this very day.[6]
None of this work survives.
The north transept rose features the Tree of Jesse.
The south transept rose shows the Creation.
Architecture[edit]
The Basilica of St Denis ranks as an architectural landmark—as the first major structure of which a substantial part was designed and built in the Gothic style.[7] Both stylistically and structurally, it heralded the change from Romanesque architecture to Gothic architecture. Before the term "Gothic" came into common use, it was known as the "French Style" (Opus Francigenum).
As it now stands, the church is a large cruciform building of "basilica" form; that is, it has a central nave with lower aisles and clerestory windows. It has an additional aisle on the northern side formed of a row of chapels. The west front has three portals, a rose window and one tower, on the southern side. The eastern end, which is built over a crypt, is apsidal, surrounded by an ambulatory and a chevet of nine radiating chapels. The basilica retains stained glass of many periods (although most of the panels from Suger's time have been removed for long-term conservation and replaced with photographic transparencies), including exceptional modern glass, and a set of twelve misericords. The basilica measures 108 meters long, and its width is 39 meters.
The Carolingian church[edit]
Little is known about the earliest buildings on the site. The first church mentioned in the chronicles was begun in 754 under Pepin the Short and completed under Charlemagne, who was present at its consecration in 775. By 832 the Abbey had been granted a remunerative whaling concession on the Cotentin Peninsula.[8] Most of what is now known about the Carolingian church at St Denis resulted from a lengthy series of excavations begun under the American art historian Sumner McKnight Crosby in 1937.[9] The building was about 60m long, with a monumental westwork, single transepts, a crossing tower and a lengthy eastern apse over a large crypt (parts of which survive). According to one of the Abbey's many foundation myths a leper, who was sleeping in the nearly completed church the night before its planned consecration, witnessed a blaze of light from which Christ, accompanied by St Denis and a host of angels, emerged to conduct the consecration ceremony himself. Before leaving, Christ healed the leper, tearing off his diseased skin to reveal a perfect complexion underneath. A misshapen patch on a marble column was said to be the leper's former skin, which stuck there when Christ discarded it. Having been consecrated by Christ, the fabric of the building was itself regarded as sacred.[10]
The Early Gothic rebuilding[edit]
Abbot Suger (c. 1081 – 1151), friend and confidant of French kings and Abbot of St Denis from 1122, began work around 1135 on the rebuild and enlargement of the abbey to which he had been given as an oblate at the age of 10. In his famous account of the work undertaken during his administration, Suger was careful to explain and justify his decision to rebuild the church, complaining at length about the parlous state of the old structure and its inability to cope with the crowds of pilgrims visiting the shrine of St Denis, particularly
Apse and northern facade, lithography by Felix Benoist.
...on special days such as the feast of the blessed Denis [...] when the narrowness of the place forced women to run to the altar on the heads of men as on a pavement with great anguish and confusion.[11]
Suger's fascination with light was not merely aesthetic. Like many French clerics in the 12th century AD, he was a follower of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, a 6th-century mystic who equated the slightest reflection or glint with divine light. When renovated, the Saint-Denis basilica included Suger's own words carved in the nave: "For bright is that which is brightly coupled with the bright/and bright is the noble edifice which is pervaded by the new light."[12]
It is important to emphasise that Suger was the patron of the rebuilding of St Denis but not the architect, as was often assumed in the 19th and early 20th centuries.[13] In fact it appears that two distinct architects, or master masons, were involved in the 12th-century changes. Both remain anonymous but their work can be distinguished on stylistic grounds. The first, who was responsible for the initial work at the western end, favoured conventional Romanesque capitals and moulding profiles with rich and individualised detailing. His successor, who completed the western facade and upper stories of the narthex, before going on to build the new choir, displayed a more restrained approach to decorative effects, relying on a simple repertoire of motifs, which may have proved more suitable for the lighter Gothic style that he helped to create.[14]
First phase: the west front, c. 1135–40[edit]
Tympanum and lintel of the central portal, showing Last Judgement iconography (c. 1135, restored 1839)
Suger began his rebuilding project at the western end of St Denis, demolishing the old Carolingian westwork, with its single, centrally located door. He extended the old nave westwards by an additional four bays and added a massive western narthex, incorporating a new façade and three chapels on the first floor level. This new façade, 34 metres (112 ft) wide and 20 metres (66 ft) deep, has three portals, the central one larger than those either side, reflecting the relative width of the central nave and lateral aisles. This tripartite arrangement was clearly influenced by the late 11th-century façades of the abbey churches of St Etienne and La Trinité, Caen, with which it also shared a three-story elevation and flanking towers. Only the south tower survives; the north tower was dismantled following a tornado which struck in 1846.
The major innovation in the façade at St Denis is the way the unknown architects have chosen to emphasise the divisions between the different parts with massive vertical buttresses separating the three doorways and horizontal string-courses and window arcades clearly marking out the divisions. This clear delineation of parts was to influence subsequent west façade designs as a common theme in the development of Gothic architecture and a marked departure from the Romanesque. The rose window at the centre of the upper story of the west portal was also innovative and influential. Although small circular windows (oculi) within triangular tympana were common on the west facades of Italian Romanesque churches, this was probably the first example of a rose window within a square frame, which was to become a dominant feature of the Gothic facades of northern France (soon to be imitated at Chartres Cathedral and many others).[15] The overall design of the façade has an obvious resemblance to a Roman city gatehouse (an impression strengthened by the buttresses and by the crenellations around the top), which helps to emphasise the traditional notion of great churches as earthly embodiments of the Heavenly City, as described in the Book of Ezekiel.
The tympanum of the portal of the north transept depicts the martyrdom of St Denis
Some of Montfaucon's drawings of the Old Testament jamb figures from the west façade (destroyed 1771)
The many influential features of the new façade include the tall, thin statues of Old Testament prophets and kings attached to columns (jamb figures) flanking the portals (destroyed in 1771 but recorded in Montfaucon's drawings). These were also adopted at the cathedrals of Paris and Chartres, constructed a few years later, and became a feature of almost every Gothic portal thereafter. Above the doorways, the central tympanum was carved with Christ in Majesty displaying his wounds with the dead emerging from their tombs below. Scenes from the martyrdom of St Denis were carved above the south (right hand) portal, while above the north portal was a mosaic (lost), even though this was, as Suger put it 'contrary to the modern custom'. Of the original sculpture, very little remains, most of what is now visible being the result of rather clumsy restoration work in 1839.[16] Some fragments of the original sculptures survive in the collection of the Musée de Cluny. The portals themselves were sealed by gilded bronze doors, ornamented with scenes from Christ's Passion and clearly recording Suger's patronage with the following inscription;
For the glory of the church which nurtured and raised him, Suger strove for the glory of the church, Sharing with you what is yours, oh martyr Denis. He prays that by your prayers he should become a sharer in Paradise. The year when it was consecrated was the one thousand, one hundred and fortieth year of the Word.[17]
On the lintel below the great tympanum showing the Last Judgement, beneath a carved figure of the kneeling Abbot, was inscribed the more modest plea;
Receive, stern Judge, the prayers of your Suger, Let me be mercifully numbered among your sheep.
Suger's western extension was completed in 1140 and the three new chapels in the narthex were consecrated on 9 June of that year.
The choir
Second phase: the new choir, 1140–44[edit]
On completion of the west front, Abbot Suger moved on to the reconstruction of the eastern end, leaving the Carolingian nave in use. He wanted a choir (chancel) that would be suffused with light. To achieve his aims, Suger's masons drew on the several new elements which evolved or had been introduced to Romanesque architecture: the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, the ambulatory with radiating chapels, the clustered columns supporting ribs springing in different directions and the flying buttresses which enabled the insertion of large clerestory windows.
It was the first time that these features had all been drawn together, and the style evolved radically from the previous Romanesque architecture by the lightness of the structure and the unusually large size of the stained glass windows. Erwin Panofsky argued that Suger was inspired to create a physical representation of the Heavenly Jerusalem; however, the extent to which Suger had any aims higher than aesthetic pleasure has been called into doubt by more recent art historians on the basis of Suger's own writings.
The nave
The new structure was finished and dedicated on 11 June 1144, in the presence of the King.[18] The Abbey of St Denis thus became the prototype for further building in the royal domain of northern France. Through the rule of the Angevin dynasty, the style was introduced to England and spread throughout France, the Low Countries, Germany, Spain, northern Italy and Sicily.[19][20]
Reconstruction of the nave[edit]
The glazed triforium of St Denis is a notable feature of Rayonnant Gothic
Rayonnant Gothic choir of St Denis
In 1231, Abbot Odo Clement began work on the rebuilding of the Carolingian nave, which remained sandwiched incongruously between Suger's Gothic works to the east and west. Both the nave and the upper parts of Suger's choir were replaced in the Rayonnant Gothic style. From the start it appears that Abbot Odo, with the approval of the Regent Blanche of Castille and her son, the young King Louis IX, planned for the new nave and its large crossing to have a much clearer focus as the French 'royal necropolis'. That plan was fulfilled in 1264 when the bones of 16 former kings and queens were relocated to new tombs arranged around the crossing, 8 Carolingian monarchs to the south and 8 Capetians to the north.[21] These tombs, featuring lifelike carved recumbent effigies or gisants lying on raised bases, were badly damaged during the French revolution though all but two were subsequently restored by Viollet le Duc in 1860.
The dark Romanesque nave, with its thick walls and small window-openings, was rebuilt using the very latest techniques, in what is now known as Rayonnant Gothic. This new style, which differed from Suger's earlier works as much as they had differed from their Romanesque precursors, reduced the wall area to an absolute minimum. Solid masonry was replaced with vast window openings filled with brilliant stained glass (all destroyed in the Revolution) and interrupted only by the most slender of bar tracery—not only in the clerestory but also, perhaps for the first time, in the normally dark triforium level. The upper facades of the two much-enlarged transepts were filled with two spectacular 12m-wide rose windows.[22] As with Suger's earlier rebuilding work, the identity of the architect or master mason remains unknown. Although often attributed to Pierre de Montreuil, the only evidence for his involvement is an unrelated document of 1247 which refers to him as 'a mason from Saint-Denis'.[23]
The Valois Mortuary Chapel[edit]
A plan of circa 1700 by Félibien shows the Valois Chapel, a large mortuary chapel in the form of a domed colonnaded "rotunda", adjoining the north transept of the basilica and containing the tomb of the Valois.[24]
St. Denis and the French Revolution[edit]
The French Revolution of 1789 ended the might of the Saint-Denis abbey. The abbey, a symbol of the royals, was completely demolished in 1792; only the church was left standing. The revolutionaries also severely damaged the church's sculptures, interior and graves. Fortunately the many sepulchral monuments had been safely stowed away. The church was restored in the mid-nineteenth century by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, the same architect responsible for the restoration of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.[25] During this time, the north tower was dismantled after it was struck by lightning, with the stones stored for later reconstruction.
Burial site[edit]
The abbey is where the kings of France and their families were buried for centuries and is therefore often referred to as the "royal necropolis of France".[26] All but three of the monarchs of France from the 10th century until 1789 have their remains here. Some monarchs, like Clovis I (465–511), were not originally buried at this site. The remains of Clovis I were exhumed from the despoiled Abbey of St Genevieve which he founded.
The abbey church contains some fine examples of cadaver tombs. The effigies of many of the kings and queens are on their tombs, but their bodies were removed during the French Revolution. The ancient monarchs were removed in August 1793 to celebrate the revolutionary Festival of Reunion, then the Bourbon and Valois monarchs were removed to celebrate the execution of Marie Antoinette in October 1793. The bodies were dumped into three trenches and covered with lime to destroy them.[27] Archaeologist Alexandre Lenoir saved many of the monuments by claiming them as artworks for his Museum of French Monuments. The bodies of several Plantagenet monarchs of England were likewise removed from Fontevraud Abbey during the French Revolution.
The Alleged Head of King Henry IV of France in 1933; his tomb was ransacked during the French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte reopened the church in 1806, but left the royal remains in their mass graves. In 1817 the restored Bourbons ordered the mass graves to be opened, but only portions of three bodies remained intact. The remaining bones from 158 bodies were collected into an ossuary in the crypt of the church, behind marble plates bearing their names.[27]
Bourbon crypt[edit]
Memorial to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, sculptures (1830) by Edme Gaulle and Pierre Petitot
The bodies of the beheaded King Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette of Austria, and his sister Madame Élisabeth were not initially buried in Saint-Denis, but rather in the churchyard of the Madeleine, where they were covered with quicklime. The body of the Dauphin, who died of an illness, was buried in an unmarked grave in a Parisian churchyard near the Temple. During Napoleon's exile in Elba, the restored Bourbons ordered a search for the corpses of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The few remains, a few bones that were presumably the king's and a clump of greyish matter containing a lady's garter, were found on 21 January 1815, brought to Saint-Denis and buried in the new Bourbon crypt.
King Louis XVIII, upon his death in 1824, was buried in the center of the crypt, near the graves of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The coffins of royal family members who died between 1815 and 1830 were also placed in the vaults. Under the direction of architect Viollet-le-Duc, famous for his work on Notre-Dame de Paris, church monuments that had been taken to the Museum of French Monuments were returned to the church. The corpse of King Louis VII, who had been buried at Barbeau Abbey and whose tomb had not been touched by the revolutionaries, was brought to Saint-Denis and buried in the crypt. In 2004, the mummified heart of the Dauphin, the boy who would have been Louis XVII, was sealed into the wall of the crypt.
Burials[edit]
Charles I of Naples (or Anjou).
Tomb of Charles Martel.
Henry I in background, Robert II, John I d. 1316 and Jeanne d. 1349
Tombs of Henry II of France and his wife Catherine de' Medici.
Tomb of Leon V of Armenia.
Tomb of Philip IV.
Saint Denis Basilica – (From left clockwise) Gisants Bertrand du Guesclin, Charles VI, Isabeau of Bavaria, Louis de Sancerre, Charles V, Jeanne de Bourbon
Tomb of Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne
Kings[edit]
All but three of the Kings of France are buried in the basilica, as well as a few other monarchs. The remains of the earlier monarchs were removed from the destroyed Abbey of St Genevieve. Some of the prominent of these are:
Clovis I (466–511)
Childebert I (496–558)
Aregund (515/520–580)
Fredegund (third wife of Chilperic I), (died 597)
Dagobert I (603–639)
Clovis II (634–657)
Charles Martel (686–741)
Pepin the Short (714–768) and his wife, Bertrada of Laon (born 710-727, died 783)
Carloman I (751–771)
Charles the Bald (823–877) (his brass monument was melted down during the Revolution) and his first wife, Ermentrude of Orléans (823–869)
Carloman II (866–884)
Robert II of France (972–1031) and his third wife, Constance of Arles (986–1032)
Henry I of France (1008–1060)
Louis VI of France (1081–1137)
Louis VII of France (1120–1180) and his second wife, Constance of Castile (1140–1160)
Philip II of France (1165–1223)
St. Louis IX of France (1214–1270)
Charles I of Naples (1227–1285), an effigy covers his heart burial
Philip III of France (1245–1285) and his first wife, Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (1248-1271)
Philip IV of France (1268–1314)
Leo V, King of Armenia (1342–1393)
Charles VII, King of France (1403-1461)
Louis XII of France (1462–1515)
Francis I of France (1494–1547)
Henry II (1519–1559) and Catherine de' Medici (1519–1589)
Francis II (1544–1560)
Charles IX (1550–1574) (no monument)
Henry III (1551–1589), also King of Poland (heart burial monument)
Henry IV (1553–1610)
Louis XIII (1601–1643)
Louis XIV (1638–1715)
Louis XV (1710–1774),
Louis XVI (1754–1793) and Marie Antoinette (1755–1793)
Louis XVII (1785–1795) (only his heart; his body was dumped into a mass grave)
Louis XVIII (1755–1824)
Other royalty and nobility[edit]
Blanche of France (daughter of Philip IV)
Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans (1607–1611), son of Henry IV
Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608–1660), son of Henry IV
Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier (1605–1627), wife of Gaston
Marguerite of Lorraine (1615–1672), Duchess of Orléans and second wife of Gaston
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans (1627–1693), la Grande Mademoiselle
Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (1645–1721), Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Jean Gaston d'Orléans (1650–1652), Duke of Valois
Marie Anne d'Orléans (1652–1656), Mademoiselle de Chartres
Henrietta Maria of France (1609–1669), wife of Charles I of Scotland and England
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640–1701), brother of Louis XIV
Princess Henrietta of England (1644–1670), first wife of Philippe
Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (1652–1722), second wife of Philippe
Maria Theresa of Spain (1638–1683), consort of Louis XIV
Louis of France (1661–1711), le Grand Dauphin
Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (1660–1690), Dauphin of France, wife of Louis
Princess Anne Élisabeth of France (1662), daughter of Louis XIV
Princess Marie Anne of France (1664), daughter of Louis XIV
Marie Thérèse of France (1667–1672), daughter of Louis XIV
Philippe Charles, Duke of Anjou (1668–1671), Duke of Anjou, son of Louis XIV
Louis François of France (1672), Duke of Anjou, son of Louis XIV
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674–1723), Regent of France
Louis of France (1682–1712), Duke of Burgundy
Marie Adélaïde of Savoy (1685–1712), Duchess of Burgundy
Louis of France (1704–1705), Duke of Brittany
Louis of France (1707–1712), Duke of Brittany
Charles of France (1686–1714), Duke of Berry
Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1695–1719), Duchess of Berry
Na (not baptized) d'Alençon (1711)
Charles d'Alençon(1713) Duke of Alençon
Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Alençon (1714)
Marie Leszczyńska (1703–1768), consort of Louis XV
Louise Élisabeth of France (1727–1759), Duchess of Parma
Henriette of France (1727–1752), daughter of Louis XV and twin of the above
Louise of France (1728–1733), daughter of Louis XV
Louis of France (1729–1765), Dauphin of France
Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (1726–1746), first wife of above
Maria Josepha of Saxony (1731–1767), second wife of Louis
Philippe of France (1730–1733), Duke of Anjou
Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (1732–1800), daughter of Louis XV
Princess Victoire of France (1733–1799), daughter of Louis XV
Princess Sophie of France (1734–1782), daughter of Louis XV
Princess Louise of France (1737–1787), daughter of Louis XV,
Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781–1789), first son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France (1786–1787), second daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne (1611–1675), Maréchal General de France.
Anne of Brittany, Duchess of Brittany (1477–1514), wife of Charles VIII and Louis XII.
Gallery[edit]
The choir at sunset
The axial chapel of the Virgin
The pipe organ
The clerestory windows
Tomb of Dagobert I
Detail from the 12th-century Life of Christ window
Depiction of the Trinity over the main entrance
Fulrad, Abbot of Saint-Denis
See also[edit]
Cathedral diagram
Martyrium of Saint Denis, Montmartre
References and sources[edit]
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Jump up ^ http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/basiliquesaintdenis.htm
Jump up ^ "Basilique Cathédrale de Saint-Denis". Centre des Monuments Nationaux. Come and visit the Basilica Cathedral of Saint Denis near Paris, the first monumental masterpiece of Gothic art. Discover the Royal necropolis and its collection of 70 sculpted recumbent statues – the only set of its kind in Europe – bathed in the multi-coloured light of the 12th and 19th-century stained glass windows.
^ Jump up to: a b Lindsay, Suzanne Glover. "The Revolutionary Exhumations at St-Denis, 1793". Center for the Study of Material & Visual Cultures of Religion. Yale University.
Sources
Félibien, Michel. 1973. Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Denys en France: Lettre-préf. de M. le Duc de Bauffremont. Introd. de Hervé Pinoteau. 1. [Nachdr. d. Ausg. Paris, 1706]. – 1973. – 524 S. Paris: Éd. du Palais Royal.
Saint-Denis Cathedral, Alain Erlande-Brandenburg, Editions Ouest-France, Rennes
Further reading[edit]
Gerson, Paula Lieber. (1986). Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis: a symposium, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870994081
Conrad Rudolph, Artistic Change at St-Denis: Abbot Suger's Program and the Early Twelfth-Century Controversy over Art (1990)
Conrad Rudolph, "Inventing the Gothic Portal: Suger, Hugh of Saint Victor, and the Construction of a New Public Art at Saint-Denis," Art History 33 (2010) 568-595
Conrad Rudolph, "Inventing the Exegetical Stained-Glass Window: Suger, Hugh, and a New Elite Art," Art Bulletin 93 (2011) 399-422
Watson, Bruce, "Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age," (London and NY: Bloomsbury, 2016).
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