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Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

Right:

† Dressed in armor (medieval!) he leads two Mideanites captive after defeating them in battle.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Gideon #TCS-photo #arch #Archivolt #cathedral #north side #restored #Right

Chartres, south side, window, detail

duplicate (WNItSHsEQemR1MR7bFSgZw)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Window 037 - Saint James Major

Bottom to top, left to right (some rows have the story proceed RIGHT to left; marked '!' where this occurs:

• Row 01: Furrier as donor; Draper as donor measures cloth.
• Row 02: Christ gives James a pilgrim's staff (perhaps assign to mission in Galacia?)
• Row 03: Demon inspires Hermogenes (Almogines), a magician, to send his disciple, Filetus, to confront James; James preaches (!).
• Row 04: James and Filetus meet, and the saint converts him.
• Row 05: Filetus reports his conversion to Hermogenes; Hermogenes binds his apprentence with magic.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Filetus #france #Hermogenes #Saint James Major #TCS-photo #Win037 #cathedral #date estimate #devils and demons #donors identified #miracles #stained glass #unrestored

Window 005 - Mary Magdalen (detail, restored)

• Panels 1,2,3: Water-bearers, the donors of the window

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Win005 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #stained glass

Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored, detail)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).

• 1-5: Apothicaries and haberdashers as donors. (5) merchant with balance.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #west side

Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel.

Left:

† Tobit buries the Jew;

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Tobias #Tobit #arch #Archivolt #cathedral #north side #restored #Right

Chartres, north side, right portal, archivolt

OUTER ARCH

• First archivolt: June mower goes to fields with scythe and whetstone, July taking flax to be steeped in water
• Second archivolt: Taurus, Gemini

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #calendar of months #cathedral #north side #outer arch #restored #Right #zodiac

Chartres, north side, right portal, archivolt

OUTER ARCH

• First archivolt: months with accompanying activities: January/Janus, February warms by fire, March prunes vines, April holds corn
• Second archivolt: Zodiac: Winter, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pieces, Aries

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #calendar of months #cathedral #north side #outer arch #restored #Right #zodiac

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chanelle's Camera #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #flowers #ville