Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

France: Benedictine Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

Twelfth-Century Windows: Infancy 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.

A-6 Kneeling Angel B-6 Death of the Virgin C-6 Kneeling Angel A-5 Mary B-5 Boy Jesus in the Temple C-5 Joseph A-4 Massacre of the Innocents B-4 Flight to Egypt C-4 Massacre of the Innocents A-3 Dream of the Magi B-3 The Magi C-3 Adoration of the Magi A-2 Annunciation to the Shepherds B-2 Nativity C-2 Presentation at the Temple A-1 Visitation B-1 Annunciation C-1 Joseph and Angel

Other extant fragments:

• Herod Recieves the Magi: Champs-sur-Marne, Dépôt des Monuments Historiques (Grodecki [1976], figs. 83-85)
• Magi before Herod: Champs-sur-Marne, Dépôt des Monuments Historiques (Grodecki [1976], figs. 86-87)
• Flight to Egypt: Raymond Pitcairn Collection, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, O3.SG.114
  Radiance and Reflection no. 25
• Flight to Egypt: Wilton, England, Parish Church (Grodecki [1976], figs. 93-95)
• Virgin and Child (Part of the Adoration of the Magi): Wilton, England, Parish Church ((Grodecki [1976], figs. 96-97)
• Shepherds go to Bethelehem: Norwich, D. King Collection (Grodecki [1976], figs. 98-99)
• Fragment of Presentation at the Temple: Wilton, England, Parish Church (Grodecki [1976], figs. 100-01)
• Presentation at the Temple: Twycross, England, Parish Church (Grodecki [1976], figs. 88-89)
• People of Soutine or Arrival in Egypt: Wilton, England, Parish Church (Grodecki [1976], figs. 102-03)
• Prophet Jeremiah: Glasgow, Burrell Collection
  (Grodecki [1976], pl. VIII, figs. 90-92)

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Comparative Material

Bibliography

Grodecki (1976), pp. 81-92.

Cothren, Michael. "A Re-Evaluation of the Iconography an d Design of the Infancy Window from the Abbey of Saint-Denis," Gesta 17 (1978), 74-75.

The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1122-1151) (exhibition catalogue) (New York: The Cloisters), 1981, no. 13.

Radiance and Reflection: Medieval Art from the Raymond Pitcairn Collection (exhibition catalogue), ed. Jane Hayward and Walter Cahn (New York: The Metropolitan Museum, 1982), no. 25.

Cothren, Michael. "The Twelfth-Century Infancy of Christ Window from Saint-Denis: A Re-Evaluation of its Design and Iconography," Art Bulletin LXVIII (1986), 398-420.

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