Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Saint-Denis: Stained Glass in Chevet and Ambulatory
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Preferred Title:
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Saint-Denis: Stained Glass in Chevet and Ambulatory
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Image View:
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19th century glass, detail of window
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Creator:
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Suger, Abbot of Saint-Denis (French patron, ca. 1081-1151)
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Location:
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site: Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France
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Date:
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ca. 1140-1850 (inclusive)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Gothic (Medieval); Nineteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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stained glass (visual work)
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Classification:
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glass
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Material:
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stained glass
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Technique:
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stained glass
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Relation Work:
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part of Saint-Denis
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Subjects:
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cycles or series; decorative arts; New Testament; Old Testament and Apocrypha; window: stained glass
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Description:
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Little remains of the abbey's important and influential medieval glazing. The windows of the Rayonnant choir and nave, probably the most important 13th-century ensemble in the Paris region before the glazing of the Sainte-Chapelle, were destroyed in the Revolution. They are documented only in a sketch, one of a series (Compiègne, Mus. Mun. Vivenel) made in 1794-1795 by Charles Percier, and the reliability of even this has been challenged (Lillich). Despite the effects of the Revolution and a series of 19th-century restorations, more glass, and better documentation, survive from the ambulatory of Suger's 12th-century church, enabling some evaluation of the significance of this glazing within the history of medieval art. Glazing played an unprecedentedly influential role in the design of Suger's church, especially in the ambulatory. Here for the first time stained glass became an important feature, perhaps the most important feature, of an architectural environment. In Suger's record of his administration, some
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Two
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Identifier:
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1A2-F-P-SD-5-I2
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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