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Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis: A Symposium

Door Paula Lieber Gerson

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#400672-LA15
Titel
Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis: A Symposium
Auteur
Gerson, Paula Lieber
Boektype
Paperback hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jaar van uitgave
1986
ISBN10
0810915170
ISBN13
9780810915176
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, numerous illustrations (including photographs), 4to.
Samenvatting
"Suger, abbot of the French abbey of Saint-Denis, lived from 1081 to 1151. This book of essays about his life and achievements grew out of a symposium sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art and by Columbia University ... For the symposium, twenty-three medieval scholars from all parts of the world, representing a wide range of humanistic disciplines, were brought together to discuss the varied nature of Suger's activities. Suger has been best known for his contributions as a patron of art and architecture ... As the essays in this volume devoted to Suger's political activities and historical writings demonstrate, he was, in addition to being a brilliantly innovative patron of architecture, an important architect of the French state. Only by bringing together differing h... (Lees verder)umanistic perspectives on Suger and Saint-Denis has it been possible to achieve, for the first time, a fully rounded appreciation of a man who was, at the same time, a patron of the arts and literature, a politician who adroitly used his ecclesiastical position to enhance the growth and power of the monarchy, and a churchman consistently devoted to the promotion of the cult of Saint-Denis, the patron saint of his abbey and of France"--From publisher's description.
Pagina's
303
Conditie
Goed — Duts jacket lightly scratched at rear.
Prijs
€ 35,00

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