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Church architecture --- Architecture, Gothic --- Architecture chrétienne --- Architecture gothique --- Influence. --- Influence --- Anjou, House of --- Art patronage. --- Naples (Kingdom) --- Naples (Royaume) --- Civilization. --- Civilisation --- Architecture chrétienne
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The magnificent abbey church of St-Denis, rebuilt during the reign of King Louis IX of France, is one of the principal monuments of Gothic architecture in the thirteenth century. The reconstruction of St-Denis, initiated in 1231, brought to completion the work begun and left incomplete by Abbot Suger almost one hundred years before. While Abbot Suger's renovations have been extensively studied, the equally innovative reconstruction of the church a century later has been neglected until now. In the first complete study of the thirteenth-century church, Caroline Astrid Bruzelius analyzes its structure and chronology and places it within the larger context of Gothic and Rayonnant architecture. Bruzelius demonstrates that the thirteenth-century rebuilding of St-Denis not only preserved and harmonized with parts of Suger's earlier building program, but also comprised a number of innovations of astonishing originality. The elevation, adjusted in the east end to incorporate the older parts of the church, introduced a new approach to glass and stone. The glazing of the triforium and the expansion of the transept created a brightness throughout. The crossing, which functioned as a royal necropolis, became a memorial to the Capetian dynasty, strengthening and legitimizing the authority of king and crown. Bruzelius's analysis of the reconstruction, which incorporates both archaeological evidence and documents, has permitted a new understanding of the importance of the church at St-Denis and of Parisian architecture of this period. A central monument in the Rayonnant Gothic style, St-Denis's influence on cathedrals such as Troyes and Strasbourg clearly illustrates the contribution of Paris to the architecture of other areas and to the development of a new aesthetic.
Architecture, Gothic --- -Christian art and symbolism --- -#TCON:ICOMOS --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Religious art, Christian --- Sacred art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Art --- Symbolism --- Christian antiquities --- Church decoration and ornament --- Gothic architecture --- Church architecture --- Eglise abbatiale de Saint-Denis --- Saint-Denis (France) --- -Buildings, structures, etc --- Christian art and symbolism --- Eglise abbatiale de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Eglise abbatiale de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France). --- #TCON:ICOMOS --- Cathédrale Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France) --- Basilique de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France) --- Saint-Denis (Abbey church : Saint-Denis, France) --- Saint-Denis (Cathedral : Saint-Denis, France) --- Saint-Denis (Basilica : Saint-Denis, France) --- Abbey Church of Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France) --- St. Denys (Abbey church : Saint-Denis, France) --- Église S. Denys (Saint-Denis, France) --- Église de S. Denys (Saint-Denis, France) --- St-Denis (Abbey church : Saint-Denis, France) --- Basilique royale de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France) --- Abbaye de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France)
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"Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an exchange of donations in return for intercessory prayers and burial: association with friars was believed to reduce the suffering of purgatory. Mendicant convents became urban cemeteries, warehouses filled with family tombs, flags, shields, and private altars. As mendicants became progressively institutionalized and sought legitimacy, friars adopted the architectural structures of monasticism: chapter houses, cloisters, dormitories, and refectories. They also created piazzas for preaching and burying outside their churches. Construction depended on assembling adequate funding from communes, confraternities, and private individuals; it was also sometimes supported by the expropriation of property from heretics. Because of irregular funding, construction was episodic, with substantial changes in scale and design. Choir screens served as temporary west façades while funds were raised for completion. This is the first book to analyze the friars' influence on the growth and transformation of medieval buildings and urban spaces. "--
Architecture and society --- Architecture, Medieval --- Space (Architecture) --- Friars --- Cities and towns, Medieval. --- Medieval cities and towns --- Mendicant orders --- Christians --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Architecture and space --- Space and architectural mass --- Space in architecture --- Architecture --- City planning --- Middle Ages --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- History --- Composition, proportion, etc. --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Negative space (Architecture) --- Cities and towns, Medieval
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"In the thirteenth century, mendicant orders introduced new ways of religious life that engaged the laity through preaching and conversion. Moreover, they founded new movements for religious women dedicated to prayer and contemplation, such as the Dominican nuns and the Poor Clares. In their churches, both friars and nuns were separated from the laity, either in choir precincts situated behind architectural screens, or in upper galleries raised above ground level. Before the widespread removal of these furnishings, therefore, medieval and early modern mendicant church interiors did not resemble the unified spaces we encounter today. This volume presents a series of European case studies which use textual and material evidence to reconstruct and analyze the internal divisions of churches between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century. Thus, the authors provide a broad understanding of the variety, function, and meaning of the internal divisions that once conditioned the spiritual experience, function and meaning of sacred space for the laity as well as for the religious community." Source : cover
Church architecture --- Choirs (Architecture) --- Architecture, Medieval --- Church buildings --- Monastic and religious life --- History
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