Based on a fresh reading of primary sources, Lindy Grant's comprehensive biography of Abbot Suger (1081-1151) provides a reassessment of a key figure of the twelfth century. Active in secular and religious affairs alike - Suger was Regent of France and also abbot of one of the most important abbeys in Europe during the time of the Gregorian reforms. But he is primarily remembered as a great artistic patron whose commissions included buildings in the new Gothic style. Lindy Grant reviews him in all these roles - and offers a corrective to the current tendency to exaggerate his role as architect of both French royal power and the new gothic form.
This revised edition incorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the time of his death in 1968.
As the title of this work states, only select works of Suger have been chosen for translation. They are presented here in chronological order of compositon. We chose the texts that seemed likely to be of greatest interest for students ...
The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1122-1151)
"Suger, abbot of the French abbey of Saint-Denis, lived from 1081 to 1151. This book of essays about his life and achievements grew out of a symposium sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art and by Columbia University .
Abbot Suger of St.-Denis: Church and State in Early Twelfth-century France
No description available This book presents the first English language translation of the deeds of a major figure in French history, King Louis the Fat (1108-1137), a text frequently cited in textbooks and monographs.
“Le naturalisme dans l'architecture française autour de 1500. ... “Ripon Minster: The Beginnings of the Gothic Style in Northern Europe. ... In England and the Continent in the Middle Ages, edited by Mitchell and Moron, 60–74. ———.
13 Substantial context is provided in Stacey, Politics, Policy and Finance. 14 On the early stages of the thirteenth-century phase of the Westminster Abbey construction project from 1245 to 1259, see Binski, Westminster Abbey and the ...
The book offers the most thorough study available of the theoretical basis of medieval art as it functioned in society; and its implications for the art of both the Romanesque and Gothic periods, which were spanned by Bernard's life, are ...
Moreover the cloister [garden] represents Paradise [Gen 2.8–17] and the church [monasterium] a safer Eden, the place of Paradise. The water of pleasure in this place is in the church the water of baptism. The tree of life is in the ...