In June 1944, during the Second World War, the art historian Erwin Panofsky (1892 to 1968) wrote an essay about the abbey church of Saint-Denis. He described how, in the Middle Ages, Abbot Suger (1081 to 1151) rebuilt his abbey church near Paris, shaping an architectural style now known as “Gothic”. Suger believed that taking pleasure in the beauty of the visible work of art could transport people to an invisible, higher world. Suger wrote that this world was reached anagogico more.

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