IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

France: Benedictine Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

Twelfth-Century Windows: Ezekiel Windows

The iconography of this window was created in nineteenth century. Only the Tau panel in this window contains twelfth century glass. It may have belonged in an Apocalypse window or in a window containing prefigurations of the Passion (Grodecki [1976], p. 105).

Images of the Entire Window

Extant Window	Iconographical Key
Click here for a screen-sized version. Click here for a large "Archive Version".		The panels marked in green are ninteenth-century restorations. The panels marked in red contain some twelfth-century glass. c-6 The mystery of the closed door. Ezekiel 44:2 c-5 God's promises to David. Ezekiel 26:21-8 c-4 Sign of Tau  Ezekiel 9:2-6   c-3 Six men arrive at the door of the Temple, carrying instruments of destruction. Ezekiel 9:2-6   c-2 In the presence of four animals and four wheels, God gives Ezekiel a book that he must eat. Ezekiel I, 2:8.

Extant Panel	Restoration Diagram Shaded areas are restorations. Based on Grodecki (1976), , fig. 138.
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Present Location

SAINT DENIS  12TH CENTURY WINDOWS	SAINT-DENIS MAIN PAGE	FRANCE	INTRODUCTION