Paris, Église Saint-Etienne du Mont

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Images

Exterior, general views

Exterior, western frontispiece and towers

Exterior nave

Exterior transept

Exterior chevet

Interior narthex (if present) and nave

Interior crossing and transept arms

Interior chevet

Ancillary buildings (cloister, chapter house, refectory, dormitory etc) and displaced sculpture

Panoramas

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Historical Images and Plans

Description

Date

Begun ca. 1492

Sculptural Program

All three portals would have original displayed jamb figures of Old Testament kings, queens, and prophets. Suger is widely considered to be the first to use this convention towards the creation of a royal portal, drawing a connection between Regnum and Sacerdotium and celebrating Saint Denis' status as a royal abbey. These figures, which survive in fragments and through drawings, are of an elegant, refined Romanesque style, and were most likely carved by sculptors trained outside of the Ile-de-France, in Burgundy and Languedoc.

Location

Bibliography

Bouillet, A., St-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris, 1897
Christ, Y., Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris, s.d.
Perdrau, J., Guide du visiteur et du pelerine à l'église de Saint-Étienne du Mont, Paris, 1886?
Raunier, E., Épitaphier du vieux Paris: recoil général des inscriptions funéraires des églises, couvents, colleges, hospices, cimitìeres et charniers, depuis le moyen âge jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1890