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Window 047 - Choir, north side, 14th century grisailles, with Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence on the gridiron

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]

Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.

(5) Creation of sun and moon
(6) Creation of birds and fish. To the left, Adam is in God's mind.

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Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #center portal #creation #fall #north side #restored

Window 120 - Center, Clerestory, apse: Mary

Mary as Queen with Jesus enthroned

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Window 038 - Charlemagne (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Furriers as donors.

[Conquest of Jerusalem]

• Row 04: Charlemagne defeats Saracens; Charlemange refuses all reward save relics he has found.
• Circle 05: Charlemagne gives relics to the Church.

[Spanish Crusades - from Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin]

• Row 06: Charlemagne asks learned about Milky Way; Saint James the Major appears to Charlemagne in a dream, tells him to follow the Milky Way to Spain.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Charlemagne #Chartres #Constantine #Constantine's Conquest of Jerusalem #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #relics #restored #stained glass

Chartres, north side, center, night illumination

OT prophets, identity unknown.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Unknown figures #cathedral #exterior #night #north side #prophets #restored #Right

Chartres, north side, left portal

TYMPANUM, detail
• Adoration of the Magi and then warned not to return to Herod. Note star.

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Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored

Windows 017 - Zodiac and Labours of the Months (unrestored)

Top to bottom, left to right:

• Row 06: April (budding plants and vines); Taurus.
• Row 07: July (cutting hay); Cancer.
• Row 08: June (cutting wheat) & Leo combined.
• Row 09: August (thresh wheat); Virgo.
• Row 10: September (harvest and tramp grapes); Libra.
• Row 11: October (place wine in barrels) & Scorpio.
• Row 12: November (slaughter hog); Saggitarius
• Row 13: December (feasting) Capricorn
• Row 14: Christ with Alpha and Omega (all encompassing, even of the tasks of the year and the cosmos represented by the zodiac's progression).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #TCS-photo #Win017 #alpha and omega #calendar of months #cathedral #date estimate #donors identified #stained glass #unrestored #zodiac