Hart
104. Case Studies in Ancient
and Medieval Architecture
Fall
Semester 2004
Rayonnant
Architecture and the Burial of French Kings
Abbot
Eudes Clément de Metz
Louis
IX (1226-1270)
Blanche
of Castille, mother of Louis IX
The
Cistercian Abbey of Royaumont
1231
work begun on the reconstruction of choir, nave and transept
1264
translation of Merovingian, Carolingian and Capetian king's tombs to transept
Translation
of St. Hubert,
follower of Rogier van der Weyden, fifteenth century
The Mass of St. Giles, Master of St. Giles,
fifteenth century
Dagobert's
tomb, c. 1245
Tomb
of Robert the Pious and Constance of Arles, c. 1264
Valois
Portal (north transept), Saint-Denis, c. 1175
St.-Germain-en-Laye
(hunting lodge of Louis IX)
Drawing
of west façade of Strasbourg Cathedral, c. 1300
Psalter
of St. Louis, c. 1250
scholasticism (Erwin Panofsky)
"principle
of progressive divisibility"