HISTORY OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

Basilique, Saint-Denis No.6

: Basilique Saint-Denis; France, saint-denis; 1136?-44 (Choir)

• Ambulatory and radiating chapels.

• The double ambulatory and seven radiating chapels were constructed by Abbot Suger.

• Ambulatory and radiating chapels.

• Each radiating chapel is lit by two large windows whose width take whole span of the piers and they are shallow so that the stained glasses seem a series of diaphanous wall. Abbot Suger said, "lifting the mind from the material to the spiritual."
  Here appeared the House of God Suger imagined and Gothic architecture started.
  
  
• Comparing with Japanese tradition, the Akari-Shoji which is a window or door using paper instead of glass and bring lights and shadows into the room symbolize the nature.

[No.1]West facade	: [No.2]Nave	: [No.3]Nave: Ceiling
[No.4]Nave: Stained glass	: [No.5]Choir	: [No.6]Ambulatory
[No.7]Ambulatory: Ceiling	: [No.8]Entrance

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