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

Abbot Suger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691003149 ISBN 13: 9780691003146

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1979

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Gerda Panofsky-Soregel 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.

About the Author

Erwin Panofsky taught until 1933 at the University of Hamburg and, later, at New York University and Princeton University, joining the faculty of the institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 1935. His writings are considered among the most important of the twentieth century in art history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0691003149
• ISBN 13: 9780691003146
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Erwin Panofsky, Gerda Panofsky-Soergel