Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis - Paula Lieber Gerson

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 humanistic 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.
Hardcover, 303 pages, ENG, 285 x 225 x 25 mm, dustjacket, illustrated in b/w, book is in very good order. ISBN 9780870994081. [Auteur: Paula Lieber Gerson ; Lorraine Veach ; Kathleen C. Antrim] [Pagina's: 303] [Uitgever: , Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986] [Jaar: 1986] [Titel: Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis : A Symposium]