Context: Suger, friend and confidant of the French Kings, Louis VI and Louis VII, decided in about 1137, to rebuild the great Church of Saint-Denis, attached to an abbey which was also a royal residence. He began with the West Front, reconstructing the original Carolingian façade with its single door. He designed the façade of Saint-Denis to be an echo of the Roman Arch of Constantine with its three-part division and three large portals to ease the problem of congestion. The rose window is the earliest-known example above the West portal in France. The façade combines both round arches and pointed arches of the Gothic style.

Question: Who chose to rebuild the great Church of Saint-Denis in about 1137?
Answer: Suger

Question: Which portion the cathedral was the reconstruction of the great Church of Saint-Denis begun?
Answer: the West Front

Question: The facade of Saint Denis resembled what other well known structure?
Answer: the Roman Arch of Constantine

Question: Why were three large portal used in the construction of the Roman Arch of Constantine?
Answer: to ease the problem of congestion

Question: The facade of Saint Denis combines round arches with what other style arch?
Answer: pointed arches of the Gothic style

Question: Who chose to rebuild the great Church of Saint-Denis in about 1237?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which portion of the cathedral was involved in the destruction of the great Church of Saint-Denis?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did the facade of Saint Denis resemble as a well known creature?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Why were nine large portals used in the construction of the Roman Arch of Constantine?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does the facade of Saint Denis combine pyramids with what other style arch?
Answer: Unanswerable