windows in the façade are 13th-century; the vaulting of the nave is 14th-century; and
important 15th-century stained glass represents the lives of SS.Catherine and Agnès.
William W.Kibler/William W.Clark
Dorlan, Alexandre. Histoire architecturale et anecdotique de Schlestadt. 2 vols. Paris: Tallandier,
1912.
Duraud, Georges. “Séléstat.” Congrès archéologique (Metz, Strasbourg, Colmar) 83(1920):461–
85.
SÉNANQUE
. With Le Thoronet and Silvacane, Sénanque (Vaucluse) is one of the “three Cistercian
sisters of Provence.” Founded in 1148, it was attacked by the Waldensians in 1544 but
remained active until the Revolution,
Sénanque (Vaucluse), mid-12th-
century Cistercian abbey. Photograph
courtesy of Whitney S.Stoddard.
then was reoccupied and restored by the order between 1854 and 1969 (with a hiatus
from 1900 to 1927). Its 12th-century conventual buildings—church, cloister, chapter
house, dormitory, and warming room—are typically simple and austere, according to the
dictates of the order’s founder, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Due to its site in a narrow glen,
the church is oriented north-south. Its nave is spanned by an impressive continuous barrel
vault without cross-arches.
William W.Kibler/William W.Clark
[See also: CISTERCIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE; SILVACANE;
THORONET, LE]
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