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One may imagine that Suger played a similar part at S. Denis : that he watched and directed the work and gave many useful suggestions for plan, arrangement, and decoration : but it is not likely that any amateur, however accomplished, should be the author of a fresh constructional movement in architecture. The suggestion must have come from some practical master mason, the real architect of the building, who was to Suger and Bishop Hugh what William Wynford was to William of Wykeham. These enli...ghtened prelates 1 oi> yap ort fitfjfumtig. Procop. De Aedif. 1 68 FRANCE ROYAL DOMAIN [CH. Xxv s. Denis are nevertheless entitled to the credit of having re- cognized and valued and eagerly seized the opportunity for a forward step in art, instead of ignoring it and adhering to strict formula of tradition as the monastic schools would have done. In this way they may be regarded as instrumental in opening a new chapter in the history of art, though not themselves the inventors of the new system.
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