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    brought the veneration of Saint Denis to Rome. Soon his cultus was prevalent throughout Europe. Abbot Suger removed the relics of Denis, and those associated...
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  • Basilica of Saint Denis (now the Cathedral of Saint Denis), the traditional sepulchre of the French Kings located just outside Paris. The Abbot Suger, a close...
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    Conrad, "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 Rudolph...
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    Louis VI of France (category Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis)
    Suger, abbot of Saint Denis. Louis was born around 1081 in Paris, the son of Philip I of France and Bertha of Holland. Abbot Suger of Saint Denis, who...
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  • disappeared. Its attribution depends entirely upon the statement of Suger, abbot of St Denis in the 12th century, who added a back and arms. Its age has been...
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    1140, and then in 1165 made a translation of the work. Also, Suger, abbot of Saint-Denis from 1122 to 1151, drew on Dionysian themes to explain how the...
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    over the winter of 1143–1144. Finally, Suger hosted a meeting at his newly built monastic church at Saint-Denis during a feast day on 22 April 1144, at...
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  • Catholic cardinals began to wear red colored habitus. When Abbe Suger rebuilt Saint Denis Basilica outside Paris in the early 12th century, he added stained...
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    successfully as shown by the multiple editions produced. Suger is made abbot of Saint-Denis - circa 1630s Louis XIII - before 1943 Portrait of a Lady...
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    with popes such as Eugene III and Anastasius IV, statesmen such as Abbot Suger, German emperors such as Frederick I Barbarossa, and other notable figures...
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    first mentioned in the 12th century, already as a treasured relic, by Abbot Suger, who claims in his Administratione, "We also restored the noble throne of...
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  • University Press. ISBN 0-691-00303-3. Suger (1946). Panofsky, Erwin (ed.). Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and Its Art Treasures. Princeton University...
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    revelation. In 1128, Abbot Suger claimed that the convent at Argenteuil, where Héloïse was prioress, belonged to his abbey of St Denis. In 1129 he gained possession...
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    architecture emerged during the reconstruction of the Saint-Denis Abbey, near Paris, under Abbot Suger (d. 1151). The new style quickly spread, dominating...
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    ISBN 978-0-521-62126-7. Retrieved 9 May 2012. Lindy Grant, Abbot Suger of St-Denis: Church and State in Early Twelfth-Century France (1998), p. 39 and...
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    Light in painting (category Vincent van Gogh)
    material. These briils were identified with the divine light, as did Abbot Suger to justify his expenditure on jewels and precious materials. Both Greek...
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    discussion of Gothic architecture with the Basilica of St Denis (circa 1135–1344) and its patrons, Abbot Suger, who began to rebuild the west front and the choir...
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    dramatically between 1130 and 1140 in Paris, when the Abbe Suger rebuilt the Saint Denis Basilica. Suger considered that light was the visible manifestation...
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  • Lycée Flora Tristan (Noisy-le-Grand) (category Lycées in Seine-Saint-Denis)
    Jacques-Brel Marcel Cachin Paul Éluard Jacques-Feyder Le Corbusier Denis-Papin Arthur-Rimbaud Suger Jean-Pierre Timbaud Maurice Utrillo Henri Wallon d’application...
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    Hôtel Saint-Pol, his beloved residence. The flourishing of religious architecture in Paris was largely the work of Suger, the abbot of Saint-Denis from...
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  • St. Bernard, Cistercian, and the Abbot Suger of the order of Cluny, the initiator of Gothic art in St. Denis. One of the most beautiful works of Romanesque...
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    sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights...
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    middle of the twelfth century in Île-de-France, when Abbot Suger built the abbey at St. Denis, c. 1140, considered the first Gothic building, and soon afterward...
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    theories were on structures, fewer of them were transcribed. The Abbot Suger's Liber de rebus in administratione sua gestis was an architectural document...
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    the French abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, Henry was a troublemaker, who died justly within a year of his attack on France in 1124. For Suger, national standards...
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    architecture, first known as opus francigenum, from the work of the Abbot Suger at Saint Denis in 1140. The Early English Period began around 1180 or 1190, in the...
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    European scholarship. The doctrines originally taught by Saint Augustine, and promoted by Suger (1081–1151), the influential religious advisor to the King...
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    dramatically between 1130 and 1140 in Paris, when the Abbe Suger rebuilt the Saint Denis Basilica. He installed stained glass windows coloured with cobalt...
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    onward Louis had the assistance of a skilled religious statesman, Abbot Suger. Louis VI successfully defeated, both military and politically, many of...
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    to Saint Nicholas. Further additions were made by Louis VI, with the help of his friend and ally, Suger, the Abbot of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Louis...
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