A new material interpretation of twelfth-century architecture : reconstructing the Abbey of Saint-Denis /

A new material interpretation of twelfth-century architecture : reconstructing the Abbey of Saint-Denis /

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Author / Creator:	Crow, Jason R., author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024] ©2024
Description:	220 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Knowledge communities Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Subject:	Abbaye de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France) Architecture, Gothic -- France -- Saint-Denis. Church buildings -- Reconstruction -- France -- Saint-Denis.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13567504

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ISBN:	9789462982260 9462982260
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Today, we perceive Gothic cathedrals as light-filled forms representing the sacred. The colored light projected from brightly-colored stained glass windows onto the walls and floors of these buildings suggests the presence of divinity. Suger (1081-1151CE), the abbot of the monastery of Saint-Denis is credited with originating Gothic architecture. However, focus on form and structure has elided attention to the material out of which medieval churches were made. When Suger describes the early church he was replacing, he says that the gold and gems it contained beamed outwardly with a gleaming light that filled the eye. When he restored his church and filled it with the shining souls of his ecclesia, he repeated God?s divine act of creation. His restored church imitated the precious stones that could be shaped and polished to reveal divine light. By crafting stone, Suger fulfilled the divine plan to make heaven on earth.
Other form:	Electronic version: Crow, Jason R. New material interpretation of twelfth-century architecture. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024] 9048532167

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