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Editorial
. 2023 Oct 31;13(5):914-916.
doi: 10.21037/cdt-23-260. Epub 2023 Sep 19.

Art of Medicine: anagogico more

Yskert von Kodolitsch  1 , Alberto Virdis  2 , Eike Sebastian Debus  1
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Art of Medicine: anagogico more

Yskert von Kodolitsch et al. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther. .
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Conflicts of Interest: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form (available at https://cdt.amegroups.com/article/view/10.21037/cdt-23-260/coif). The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Anagogical window. Detail of a stained-glass window from the crypt of the abbey church of Saint-Denis, France, second quarter of 12th century. The window is now on display at the Musée Cluny, Paris, and the picture is available on Wikimedia with Free License of use. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_-_MNMA_Vitrail_02.jpg. Since the early Middle Ages, and still in the times of Abbot Suger, some strands of thought considered light as the emanation of a higher world, and colors pointed to an absolute beauty. Stained glass windows were intended to capture light, and give the matter of glass an own divine luminosity. According to Abbot Suger’s idea of anagogy, the beauty of colors served as a vehicle that transported the viewer to a higher world. For St. Bernard of Clairvaux, however, an important contemporary of Suger, colors meant the same as their supposed Latin word origin “celare”, namely “to conceal”. Bernard recognized colors as a source of falsity and disillusion, and he banned them from the churches of his order, instead of using them as a vehicle of elevation (2).
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References

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    1. Virdis A. Color in Suger’s Saint-Denis: Matter and Light. Convivium 2021;8:78-95. 10.1484/J.CONVI.5.131116 - DOI

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