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Mary Queen of Heaven / Jesus
Window 120 - Center, clerestory, apse: Mary
Visitation, Mary as Queen with Jesus enthroned.
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Window 059 - Symbolic Window, Typology of the Passion of Christ (restored, detail)
NB: Read TOP to BOTTOM, unlike most windows. Some are modern (marked *).
• Row 12: (Bottom row): Blacksmiths as donors.
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South Rose Central Lancet Window
†South side, lancets, left to right: demonstrates the OT as the foundation for the NT witness of Christ (restored, detail)
• Window 095A - South side, central lancet: Mary with Infant Christ, beneath is arms of donor Dreux-Brittany
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Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum
• First archivolt: Pythagorus (first defined mathematical relationship of harmonious tones), Music above him.
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Chartres, north side, center portal, detail
• Abraham - looks up at angel halting the sacrifice of Isaac. Ram beneath.
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Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.
TYMPANUM
• Job, scrapes self with potshard on dunghill while the satan torments him, three friends and wife. God watches from above.
original (67399)
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