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France: Benedictine Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

Twelfth-Century Windows: Fragments of Other Windows


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BENEDICT WINDOW

Fragments for which we have illustrations

Monks witness the death of St. Benedict:
Paris, Musée de Cluny 
Grodecki [1976], fig. 145-47)

Fragments for which we do not have illustrations

Kneeling monk: Twycross, England, Parish Church (Grodecki [1976], figs. 149-50)

St. Benedict strikes a monk: Twycross, England, Parish Church (Grodecki [1976], figs. 151-52)

St. Benedict and St. Maur: Twycross, England, Parish Church (Grodecki [1976], figs. 153-54)

St. Benedict receives a habit: Saint-Léonard de Fougères, église paroissiale (Grodecki [1976], figs. 155-56)

St. Benedict visited by a priest: Saint-Léonard de Fougères, église paroissiale (Grodecki [1976], figs. 157-60)

Miracle of St. Benedict: Norwich, D. King Collection (Grodecki [1976], figs. 161-62)


VINCENT WINDOW

St. Vincent roasted on a gridiron: 
Champs-sur-Marne,
Dépôt des Monuments Historiques
(Grodecki [1976], figs. 143-44)


CHARLEMAGNE WINDOW

No Illustrations Available

March of the Christian Army: Raymond Pitcairn Collection, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, O3.SG.156 (Grodecki [1976], figs. 176-77; Radiance and Reflection, no. 27)

Triple Coronation: Raymond Pitcairn Collection, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, O3.SG.111 (Grodecki [1976], figs. 178-79; Radiance and Reflection, no. 28)


BORDER FRAGMENTS

Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Raymond Pitcairn Collection 
(Grodecki [1976],
figs. 200, 201, 204; 
Radiance and Reflection, nos. 24, 26, 29

London, Victoria and Albert Museum (Grodecki [1976], fig. 65)

London, Victoria and Albert Museum C.2-1983 (Caviness, 1986, p. 260, fig. 2)

Champs-sur-Marne, Dépôt des Monuments Historiques (Grodecki [1976], figs. 193, 206, 207, 208, 209-210)

Norwich, D. King Collection (Grodecki [1976], fig. 194)

New York, Metropolitan Museum (Grodecki [1976], figs. 195, 202)


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