STAINED GLASS
. Suger, the mid-12th-century abbot of Saint-Denis, described the new ambulatory of his
church as shining “with the wonderful and uninterrupted light of most luminous
windows, pervading [its] interior beauty” (De consecratione 4). Filled with richly colored
and painted glass, the round-headed windows of the Saint-Denis ambulatory chapels
transformed natural sunlight into a re
Chartres (Eure-et-Loir), Notre-Dame,
west façade lancet, Tree of Jesse.
Photograph courtesy of Grover A.Zinn.
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