Capitolo 24
of its adornment is very splendid, and it refunds nearby study. Each
the small turret is different in architectonic you form, and statues of
saints will be seen erect inside these. The perforated silver
you work on this chandelier it is beautiful as some example of mediaeval
in existence.
[The illustration: the Cigar avana AT HILDESHEIM (the Detail)]
The great leader of arts of mediaeval in France was the abbot Suger
of St. Denis. Suger was born in 1081, his/her brother and he, Alvise,
who was Episcopalian of Arras, both that is destined for the bishopric.
As a youth he spent ten years to St. Denis as a researcher. Here him
become intimate with Prince Luigi, and this friendship developed
in after the life. On to return from a trip to Italy, in 1122,
he knew to the same duration of the death of his/her spiritual father,
Abbot Adam, and of his own election to be his/her successor. Him
this way it witnessed the head of the convent of St. Denis in 1123.
This was due to his/her noble character, his/her genius for diplomacy
and his/her artistic talent. He was minister to Luigi Vi., and later
to Luigi VII., and during the second Crusade, he was made Regent
for the kingdom. Suger was known, after this as him the Father of his
Country, for him it was a brave adviser, the firm and convincing
in matter, so that the king had really been driven from his/her suggestion.
While he was making laws and you/he/she was instigating crusades, he was also
directing art shops and propagating the arts in connection with
the life of the Church. St. Bernard reported him/it, as encouraging
too much luxurious a ritual; Suger made a characteristic answer: "If
the ancient law... it ordered that vases and gold cups owe
is used for libations, and to receive the blood of rams,... as
very rather if we had to devote gold, precious stones and the rarest
of materials, to those vases that are destined for containing the
Our God's blood."
Suger ordered and he made more good-looking appointments for the
sanctuary, and when some vase already possessed from the abbey it was of