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material expensive, and still unfit in style, he had him remodelled.
An interesting example of this is a certain ancient vase of red
porphyry. There was no anything ecclesiastical on this vase; it was
a simple vase of right Greek, with two handles to the sides. Suger
it treated him/it as the body of an eagle, while making the head and it throws the neck to
surmount him/it, and the feet of claw for him to be standing on, together with
his/her wings that fly aloft, of solid gold and you/he/she was transformed this way
in a magnificent reliquary in the form of the king of birds. The
registration on this Ampula of Suger is: "As it is our duty to introduce
to God offered of gems and gold, me, Suger I offer this vase to
the God."
Suger meant always the ideal art and character. He had the
the courage of his/her sentences despite the strong explosions of Street
Bernard. Instead of using the enormous sums of money to his/her disposition
to import Byzantine workers, he preferred to use his/her funds
and his/her his/her own influence in to develop a French and native school of
artisans.
It is interesting to discover that Sugers, among his many adaptations
and restorations to St. Denis, incorporated some of the jobs of
St. Eloi in his/her his/her own compositions. For example, him taken an ivory
pulpit and remodelled it with the sum of copper animals.
Abbots of St. Denis made the beautiful offers to the church. One of
them, Abbot the de of Matthiew Vendome, introduced a marvelous reliquary,
consisting of a gilded head and it bursts, while another gave a reliquary
to contain the jaw of St. Luigi. Suger introduced many excellent products
of his own art and that of his/her pupils, among others a great cross
six feet in height. A history is reported of him, that, while busy in
constituting a particularly splendid crucifix St. Denis, him shortly raced
of precious stones, neither it was able him in some way it gets what he required,
until some monks they came to him and they offered to sell him a superb destiny of
stones that had previously embellished the service of supper of Henry