Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

France: Benedictine Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

Twelfth-Century Windows: Moses Window

Brazen Serpent Panel

Images

Original	Restoration Diagram Shaded areas are restorations. Based on Grodecki (1976), fig. 120.
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Subject Matter

Old Testament Numbers 21:8-9

Description by Patron

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,

....

Also in the same window, where Moses raises the bronze serpent,

Just as the bronze serpent slays all serpents,
So Christ raised on the cross slays his enemies.

Location

Comparative Material

Bibliography

Grodecki (1976), pp. 93-98, pl. IX, figs. 119-21.

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