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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 039
Window 006 - Good Samaritan (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:
• Panels 9,10,11: Samaritan binds his wounds, places the man on his donkey, and takes him to a waiting inn-keeper.
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• Quadrant 12: Samaritan cares for wounded man at the inn.
• Quadrant 13: God creates man, (breathing into Adam the breath of life?).
• Center 14: Adam in paradise.
• Quadrant 15: God makes woman from rib ('tsela') as Adam sleeps. The appearance of the legs matching both Adam and Eve is a beautiful bit of work, rich with symbolism.
• Quadrant 16: God forbids the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. Note the red serpent already coiled about the trunk.
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• Panel 17: They sit under the tree (a first step toward sin, perhaps?).
• Panel 18: Satan tempts them and they eat. Note the dark, ominous red background which echoes the serpent from Quadrant 16, and contrasts with the refreshing blue of the previous.
• Panel 19: God calls to them, but they hide and make fig-leaf aprons.
• Quadrant 20: Cherubim drives them from the garden and tree of life.
• Quadrant 21: Adam digs while Eve spins with a distaff.
• Center 22: God/Christ judges their sin but also promises redemption. {? makes covenant with them)
• Quadrant 23: Cain takes an axe to Abel's head; the first murder. Abel's name can be made out in text below the panel. Like Abel--and the man in the parable--we have fallen victim to a fallen world, and lie wounded and bleeding.
• Quadrant 24: Christ sits to redeem and judge, surrounded by angels. Reminds us that he is the ultimate figure to whom the parable of the Samaritan points.
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Zodiac / Labours of the Months
Chartres, west side, left door, archivolt.
• First archivolt (inner): April with tree blossoming, Aries, May with falconer and horse, Taurus.
• Second archivolt (outer): July with wheat cutting, Cancer, August with wheat threshing, Leo
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David and Ezekiel
Window 122 - 2nd left, clerestory, apse: Ezekiel and Daniel (restored)
Butchers as donors, Ezekiel, Daniel, creature with face of a man from Ezekiel's vision.
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† Window 095 - South rose: Christ in glory, after Revelation of St. John
Surrounded by the four beasts and 24 elders of the apocalypse. Note the coat of arms (blue and yellow checkerboard) of the donors, Pierre Mauclerc of Dreux-Brittany
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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 031
Window 004 - Saint John the Divine [author of Revelation / the Apocalypse]
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Rows 08 & 09: John enters Ephesus and raises a woman from the dead; on-lookers are amazed.
• Row 10: John drinks poison and receives no harm.
• Rows 11 & 12: Two young men crush gems; John makes gems whole again.
• Row 13: Jesus appears to John.
• Rows 14 & 15: John changes wood to gold and pebbles into gems. Man gives treasure to money-changer.
• Row 16: John awaits death.
• Rows 17 & 18 & 19: Angels
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St. Paul the Apostle Window Clerestory
Window 111 - clerestory, south, lancet: Saint Paul
Saint Paul with sword, the instrument of his martyrdom.
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Chartres, west side, left portal, archivolt (bottom to top description)
• First archivolt: January with two faces,
• Second archivolt: October with knocking down acorns
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Chartres South Exterior Slides 021
South porth, right portal, right side --"Bay of the Confessors"
Figures L - R
• St. Gregory (pope dress)
• St. Jerome (translated Bible into Latin, the "Vulgate"). Beneath him is a woman with bandaged eyes (the 'blind' synagogue replaced by the Church)
• St. Martin (bishop of Tours). Two dogs lick his bishop's staff, since he reportedly prevented them from eating a hare by miraculous means. Martin gets further attention in the tympanum above the door.
• St. Avitus, abbot of Micy [added at porch construction].
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