登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis
Paula Lieber Gerson
其他書名
A Symposium
出版Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986
主題Architecture / GeneralArchitecture / History / GeneralArchitecture / History / Medieval
ISBN08109151709780810915176
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=20CFiUFHSL4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋"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.