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France: Benedictine Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

Twelfth-Century Windows: Anagogical Window

Quadriga of Aminadab Panel

Images

Original	Restoration Diagram Shaded areas are restorations. Based on Grodecki (1976), pp. 98-99, fig. 129.
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Subject Matter

The Quadriga of Aminadab: God the Father holding Christ on the cross resting on the four-wheeled Ark of the Covenant.

ABBOT SUGER OF SAINT DENIS: ON WHAT WAS DONE IN HIS ADMINISTRATION

Translated by David Burr, History Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, and reproduced here with his kind permission.

XXXIV

We also had painted, by the hands of many masters sought out in various nations, a splendid variety of new windows below and above,

....

In the same window, under the ark of the covenant,

From the ark of the covenant is established the altar of Christ.
There, by a greater covenant, life wishes to die.

Location

Bibliography

Suger, ed. Panofsky (1979), pp. 74-75, 212-13.

Grodecki (1976), pp. 98-100.

Royal Abbey (1981), no. 16.

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