Column Statue of a King, ca. 1150–60, Made in Saint-Denis, French, Limestone, Overall: 45 1/2 x 9 x 9 1/2 in. (115.6 x 22.9 x 24.1 cm), Sculpture-Stone, The royal abbey at Saint-Denis housed the shrine of this national saint. It possessed many of the regalia of the kings of France, and the abbey served as their burial site. Under the energetic Abbot Suger (1122–51) the abbey was rebuilt in a new style that was hailed in the Middle Ages as “the French style” and subsequently called Gothic
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