Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures

Summary: This revised edition incorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the time of his death in 1968. Gerda Panofsky-Soergel has updated the commentary in the light of new material, and the bibliography that she has prepared reflects the scholarship on St.-Denis in the last three decades. She has obtained some additional and more recent photographs, and the illustrations include a new ground... plan and a new section of the chevet of the Abbey Church, both drawn under the supervision of Sumner McKnight Crosby. [read more]