LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
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:
† Crowned head
† Tobi and Tobias prepare feast. They are told of a Jew's death;
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Chartres, west side, right portal, Capitals:
• Last Supper (note Saint John with his head in Jesus' lap).
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†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (unrestored)
• Window 145C - North side, far left lancet: Melchizedek standing over Nebuchadnezzar (true king over the false Babylonian pretender to world-lordship, worshipping idol of his dream).
• Window 145B - North side, near left lancet: King David standing over King Saul (the chosen king over the apostate king rejected by God, who dies via suicide in despair).
• Window 145A - North side, central lancet: Saint Anne holding Infant Mary. Beneath this are the arms of France.
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Window 112 - clerestory, south side: Saint Vincent.
Saint Vincent's body is protected by a raven
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Window 010 - Saint Apollinaris, Celestial Hierarchy, Grisaille (14th century) (unrestored).
Two rows of grisaille were inserted in 1328, replacing older glass. Its purpose was to honor the saints whose altar had been installed before it.
• Row 01: Grisaille quarrels and tituli identifying the saints in left of row 2; Inscription recording Canon Theirry's donation; Grisaille quarrels and tituli identifying the saints in panel 06 right of row 2.
• Row 02: Saints Quiricus (Cyr) and his mother, St Julitte, St Maur, St Radigonde; Canon Guillaume Theirry kneeling before the Virgin and Child; St Sulpice, St Mathurin de Laurchant, St Lifart slaying the dragon.
SAINT APOLLINARIS
• Row 03: Saint Apollinaris heals blind child (son of judge Thaurus?); Meets tribune of Ravenna; Heals tribune's wife.
• Row 04: Baptises tribune and his household; Goes into exile; heals woman possessed with evil spirit.
• Row 05: Apollinaris enters home of Rufus Patricius, Duke of Ravenna; Raises Rufus' daughter from the dead; Provost demands Apollinaris sacrifice to idols.
• Row 06: Angel visits the saint in prison; temple of Jupiter/Zeus collapses due to saints' prayer; Provost and others watch temple's destruction.
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Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum
• First archivolt: Pythagorus, Music, then 6 angels (not all seen)
• Second archivolt: Priscian or Donatus, Grammar, Ptolomy, Astronomy, Boethius or Pythagorus.
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Window 001 - Jesse Tree, detail
Mary
Prophets who testified of Christ's coming border the window.
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Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.
JAMB Figures
Right:
• Jesus ben Sirach, standing on the temple whose reconstruction was wrongly attributed to him;
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