Inventing the Gothic portal: Suger, Hugh of Saint Victor, and the construction of a new public art at Saint-Denis

• Autores: Conrad Rudolph
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 33, Nº. 4, 2010, págs. 568-595
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Scholars have always recognized the central importance of the Gothic portal, perhaps the most imposing form of public, visual media in the Middle Ages. Yet any reasons for its sudden appearance at Saint-Denis in the mid-twelfth century have been largely overlooked. This study argues that the impetus to this essentially new art form was a desire to address the public in increasingly complex and articulate ways, and that the vehicle that provided the basis for this new ability – that bridged the gap between literature’s potential for complex expression and such expression in large-scale public art – is a work of art also almost entirely ignored by art historians, Hugh of Saint Victor’s pedagogical image, The Mystic Ark.