Cathedral Building 
.... It took a willful, politically-powerful personality to initiate a cathedral-building project - the strong-willed
Abbot Suger at St.Denis, who had the ear of ....
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The Gothic cathedral movement
.... Christianity, and by the twelfth century it was "the royal abbey par excellence in France." The rebuilding was initiated around 1135 by
Abbot Suger (1081-1151 ....
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Romanesque & Gothic Architectural Styles
.... of light. The style begins with the
Abbot Suger's new choir, added to the existing Carolingian abbey church of St. Denis. It was ....
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Architecture Comparison
.... Anthemiuys of Tralles and Isidorus of Melitus (The Byzantine Monuments, 2004, p. 2). Saint-Denis was rebuilt under the direction of
Suger,
Abbot of St. ....
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The Tree of Jesse
.... almost every Tree of Jesse was conceived in the same way as
Suger's vision. .... He makes reference to Hugo de Flory, an
abbot of Westminster who in 1091 undertook ....
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