Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

France: Benedictine Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

Twelfth-Century Windows: Ezekiel Window

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Iconographical Key

The panels marked in yellow are ninteenth-century restorations. The panels marked in red contain some twelfth-century glass. Click on the twelfth-century panels for more information about them.

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 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.

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

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Bibliography

Grodecki (1976), pp. 103-7.