IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

FRANCE: ABBEY OF SAINT-DENIS
BIBLIOGRAPHY

General

Abbot Suger, On the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and its Art Treasures, ed. tr. and annotated by Erwin Panofsky, 2 ed. Gerda Panofsky-Soergel (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1946/1979)

Suger and A. Lecoy de La Marche (1867). Oeuvres completes de Suger. Paris,, Mme ve J. Renouard.

Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis, a Symposium. Edited by Pamela Lieber-Gerson. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986)

Crosby, S. M. and P. Z. Blum (1987). The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis from its beginnings to the death of Suger, 475-1151. New Haven,Yale University Press.

Crosby, S. M. and Cloisters (Museum) (1981). The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the time of Abbot Suger (1122-1151). New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Doublet, Dom Jacques. Histoire de l'Abbaye Royale de Saint Denys en France. Paris, 1625.

Félibien, Dom Michel. Histoire de L'Abbaye Royale de Saint-Denys en France. Paris, 1706. Reprinted in 1973.

Gerson, P. L. The west facade of St.-Denis : an iconographic study:  (1970).

Grant, L.  Abbot Suger of St.-Denis : church and state in early twelfth-century France. New York, Longman. 1998 .

Hudson, E. S. (1997). Subtle intentions : Abbot Suger's artistic agenda at the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis:

Jaquemet, J. and L. N. Barbier . L'Eglise de Saint-Denis : sa crypte, ses tombeaux, ses chapelles, son tresor. Paris, Putois-Crette.(1867)

Kramp, M. . Kirche, Kunst und Konigsbild : zum Zusammenhang von Politik und Kirchenbau im capetingischen Frankreich des 12 Jahrhunderts am Beispiel der drei Abteien Saint-Denis, Saint-Germain-des-Pres und Saint-Remi/Reims. Weimar, Verl. und Datenbank furGeisteswiss , 1995.

Rohault de Fleury, Charles. La Messe. Etudes archéologiques sur ses monuments. 8 vols. Paris, 1883-1889.

Levavasseur, F. . La basilique de Saint-Denys; guide du visiteur. Paris, s.n(1952)

Polk, T. E. . Saint-Denis, Noyon and the early Gothic choir : methodological considerations for the history of early Gothic architecture. Frankfurt am Main, P.D. Lang (1982)

Robertson, A. W.  Music and liturgy at the Abbey of Saint-Denis, 567-1567 : a survey of the primary sources: 1984.

Rockwell, A. F. (1968). Glass, stones & crown: the Abbé Suger and the building of St. Denis. London,, Macmillan.

The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1125-1151). Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1981: 108-111.

Verdier, Philippe. "Réflexions sur l'esthétique de Suger." Etudes de civilisation médiévale: Mélanges offerts à Edmond-René Labande. Poitiers,

Stained Glass

Grodecki, Louis. Les Vitraux de Saint-Denis (Corpus vitrearum medii aevi, Série "Études", I) (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1976)

Cothren, Michael. "A Re-Evaluation of the Iconography an d Design of the Infancy Window from the Abbey of Saint-Denis," Gesta 17 (1978), 74-75.

The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1122-1151) (exhibition catalogue) (New York: The Cloisters), 1981, nos. 10-22.

Radiance and Reflection: Medieval Art from the Raymond Pitcairn Collection (exhibition catalogue), ed. Jane Hayward and Walter Cahn (New York: The Metropolitan Museum, 1982)

Caviness, Madeline. "Suger's Glass at Saint-Denis: The State of Research," in Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis: A Symposium, ed. Paula Lieber Gerson (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), pp. 257-72.

Cothren, Michael. "The Twelfth-Century Infancy of Christ Window from Saint-Denis: A Re-Evaluation of its Design and Iconography," Art Bulletin LXVIII (1986), 398-420.

Treasures

Brenk, B. "Suger Spolien." Arte Medievale 1 (1983): 107.

Conway, Sir W. Martin. "The Abbey of Saint-Denis and its Ancient Treasures." Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity 66 (1915).

Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 10, 171, note 1, repro. 27.

Christensen, Erwin O. Objects of Medieval Art from the Widener Collection. Washington, 1952.

Guibert, Joseph. Les dessins du cabinet de Peiresc au Cabinet des Estampes de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris, 1910.

Treasures from Medieval France. Exh. cat. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.

Montesquiou-Fezensac, Blaise de, (with the collaboration of Gabrielle Gaborit-Chopin) . Le Trésor de Saint-Denis, 3 vols, Paris, 1973-7.

Omont, Henri. Inventaire du trésor de Saint-Denis en 1505 et 1739. Paris, 1901.

Musée du Louvre. La trésor de Saint-Denis (exhibition catalogue). Paris;1991.

Ricci, Seymour de. "Un calice du trésor de Saint-Denis." Académie des inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: Comptes Rendus des séances de l'année Paris (1923): 335-339

Gaborit-Chopin, Regalia: Les Instruments du Sacre des Rois de France: Les "Honneuse de Charlemagne", Paris, 1987 ISBN 2-7118-2.105-4.

Images in Ivory:Precious Objects of the Gothic Age (Exhibition catalogue) ed. By Peter Arnett.Princeton, 1997. ISBN 0-691-001611-9.

Verdier, Philippe. "The Chalice of Abbot Suger." StHist 24 (1989): 9-29.

Sculpture

Crosby, S. M. (1972). The Apostle Bas-relief at Saint-Denis. New Haven, Yale University Press.

Manuscripts

Catholic Church., Saint-Denis (Abbey), et al.. Le graduel de Saint-Denis : XIe s. manuscrit 384 de la Bibliotheque Mazarine de Paris.Paris, Nouvelles Editions Latines 1981.

Foley, E. B., Abbaye de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis France)., et al. The first Ordinary of the Royal Abbey of St.-Denis in France :Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine 526. Fribourg, Switzerland, University Press, 1990.

Robertson, A. W.  The service-books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis : images of ritual and music in the Middle Ages. Oxford New York, Clarendon Press ;Oxford University Press,1991.

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