Hart 104.  Case Studies in Ancient and Medieval Architecture

Fall Semester 2004

 

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Lecture 10.  The Abbey of Saint-Denis

                        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"