Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

France: Benedictine Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

Twelfth-Century Windows: Moses Window

Finding of Moses by the Pharaoh's Daughter Panel

Images

Original

Restoration Diagram
Shaded areas are restorations.
Based on Grodecki (1976), fig. 109.


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Subject Matter

Old Testament Exodus 2:2-10

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, from the first in the chevet representing the tree of Jesse to the one over the principal door of the entrance.

....

In another window, where the pharaoh's daughter finds Moses in the basket,

Moses in the basket is that child
Whom the church, the royal maiden, nurses with holy mind.

Location

Location of Window

Location of Finding of Moses Panel
Within Current Window

Comparative Material

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Bibliography

Grodecki-1976, pp. 49, 64, 93, 95, 97, 144, 147, Plates 107-9.

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