The Book of Suger, Abbot of St. Denis
| Name of text: | The Book of Suger, Abbot of St. Denis |
| Author of text: | Abbot Suger |
| Date of text: | 1144- ca. 1148 |
| Date of person in text: | 1081-1151 |
| Name of structure in text: | S. Denis |
| Type of structure in text: | Basilica |
| Date of structure in text | Originally seventh century building, rebuilt and enlarged by Suger starting ca. 1135. |
| Century of structure 1: | 7 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 12 AD |
| Country in text: | France |
| Region in text: | northern suburb of Paris |
| City in text: | St. Denis |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Above north portal of church |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Also others [doors], new ones on the right side and the old ones on the left beneath the mosaic which, though contrary to modern custom, we ordered to be executed there and to be affixed to the tympanum of the portal. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 12 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Abbot Suger, The Book of Suger, Abbot of St. Denis, XXVII, in Abbot Suger, on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and its Art Treasures, ed. and trans. by Edwin Panofsky (Princeton 1946, quoted in E. G. Holt, Literary Sources of Art History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947), p. 21. |
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