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
VR Tour
Historical Images and Plans
Notes
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