Color in Suger’s Saint-Denis : Matter and Light
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Color in Suger’s Saint-Denis : Matter and Light
Original language description
The vast examination and analysis of Abbot Suger and the choir of Saint-Denis have mainly focused on the role and importance of the light coming through the stained-glass windows, neglecting the role of color in defining the cathedral’s interior space. The same can be said of the references in Suger’s writings to the colors of the stained-glass windows as well as of other early medieval goldsmithery objects once held in the basilica. This article analyzes mentions of color in Suger’s writings in connection with related works of art. Considerations include the different ways in which color was understood in medieval culture, possible interpretations of the expression materia saphirorum and the vexata quaestio of the links between Suger and the metaphysics of light in Dionysius the Areopagite. Altogether, these considerations show how a full understanding of color-related issues is necessary for a correct interpretation of both Suger’s writings and the stained-glass windows in the basilica’s choir.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF17_050%2F0008496" target="_blank" >EF17_050/0008496: MSCAfellow@MUNI</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Convivium
ISSN
2336-3452
e-ISSN
2336-808X
Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
BE - BELGIUM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
78-95
UT code for WoS article
000752404100005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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