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FRANCE: ABBEY OF SAINT-DENIS

West Facade:Centre Portal

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Subject Matter


Restoration Diagram

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Restoration diagram adapted by kind permission of the author from Pamela Z. Blum, Early Gothic Saint-Denis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), figs. IIA-IXB, copyright The Regents of the University of California.

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Paula Lieber Gerson, The West Facade of Saint-Denis: An Iconographic Study (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1970) (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1979) NA 1051.s1361 G3

ead.," Suger as Iconographer: The Central Portal of the West Facade of Saint-Denis," in Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis: A Symposium, ed. Paula Lieber Gerson (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), pp. 194-98, figs. 1 and 2. NA 5551.s214A23 1986, ISBN 0-87099-408-5

Pamela Blum, Early Gothic Saint-Denis: Restorations and Survivals (Berkley: University of California Press, 1992), p. 27-69 and pl. 1
NB1910.B58 1992, 0-520-07371-1.

Compare With


 Compare Voussoirs with those of the Central Portal of the West Facade of Chartres Cathedral, which have the same subject matter.


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