Abbot Sugar and Saint-Denis: A Symposium by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edited by Paula Lieber Gerson

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

A compilation of papers delivered by 23 leading international scholars at a major 1981 centenary conference to mark the 900th anniversary of Abbot Suger's birth (1081-1151). Contains approximately 200 black-and-white plates, maps, and architectural plans.

While Abbot Suger is widely celebrated as the "father of Gothic architecture" for his mid-12th-century rebuilding of the Royal Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, this volume deliberately pushes past his artistic patronage. The gathered essays are uniquely structured to capture a fully rounded biography of the man by evaluating him through three distinct lenses: patron of art and architecture, statesman and politician and churchman and historian.

Contains approximately 200 black-and-white plates, maps, and architectural plans.