Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

France: Benedictine Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

Twelfth-Century Windows: Anagogical Window

Ecclesia/Synagoga Panel

Images

Original

Restoration Diagram
Shaded areas are restorations.
Based on Grodecki (1976), p. 201, fig. 133.

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Subject Matter

Christ crowning Ecclesia and raising the veil of Synagoga. Click here for definitions of Ecclesia and Synagoga.

See Grodecki (1976) pp. 100-101.

Location

Location of Window

Current position of Ecclesia/Synagoga panel

Comparative Material

Compare with other twelfth-century Saint-Denis windows.

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Bibliography

Suger, ed. Panofsky (1948/1979), pp. 74-75, 211-12.

Grodecki (1976), pp. 98-101.

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