Category: Chartres Cathedral – Interior

• Row 01: Christ Transfigured; Descent from mount of Transfiguration with Peter, James, and John.
• Row 02: Last Supper, Washing of Feet.
• Row 03: Jesus is betrayed by Judas and seized; Scourging of Christ.
• Row 04: Crucifixion; Descent from the Cross.
• Row 05: Deposition of Christ’s body in the sepulchre; Easter morning: angels asks women come to annoint Jesus why they seek the dead among the living.
• Row 06: Mary Magdalen tell the apostles of Jesus’ resurrection; Christ appears to the holy women
• Row 07: Jesus meets disciples on road to Emmaus; Jesus dines with the disciples from previous frame.

• Row 01: Annunciation of Gabriel to Mary; Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth; Birth of Christ in stable. Note the altar-like manger.
• Row 02: Angels to shepherds; Herod; Wise men seeking Christ.
• Row 03: Wise men presenting gifts; Christ with Mary; Wise men returning home (they are warned by the angel in the panel directly above them).
• Row 04: Presentation at the temple (2 frames); Angel warns wise men to return a different way.
• Row 05: Herod angry he’s been deceived by wise men; Slaughter of the Innocents (2 frames).
• Row 06: Flight into Egypt; Egypt; Return from Egypt.
• Row 07: Fall of the idols of Egypt; Baptism of Christ; Dream of St. Joseph.
• Row 08: Triumphal entry to Jerusalem (3 frames).
• Row 09: Christ in Glory flanked by two angels.

1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;


3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:


4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.


5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

One of four windows preserved from the previous cathedral largely destroyed by the 1194 fire. Widely regarded as a quintessential specimen of Gothic art, and one of its finest examples.

A common and recurrent theme in the Middle Ages, (see north side sculpture) the Jesse Tree invokes the Messianic prophesy of Isaiah 11 describing a redeemer figure descended from the royal house of King David. Jesse sleeps at the base of the tree, and he gives rise to King David.

Three more kings follow, leading to the Virgin Mary. The tree is crowned by Christ. Christ is surrounded by seven doves, representing the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Prophets who also foretold Christ’s coming form the window’s border.