Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

France: Benedictine Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

Twelfth-Century Windows: Moses Window

Crossing of the Red Sea Panel

Images

Original

Restoration Diagram
Shaded areas are restorations.
Based on Grodecki (1976), fig. 114.

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Subject Matter

Old Testament Exodus 14: 21-29.

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 the pharaoh and his horsemen are submerged in the sea,

What baptism does to the good,
A like form but an unlike cause does to the pharaoh's army.

Location

Location of Window

Position of the Crossing of the Red Sea Panel

Comparative Material

Bibliography

Grodecki (1976), pp. 93-98, pl. X, figs. 113-5.

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