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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum

• First archivolt: Pisces (fish), Gemeni (twins)
• Second archivolt: Aristotle, Dialectic

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Window 120 - Center, clerestory, apse: Mary

Bakers as donors, Annunciation

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Window 001 - Jesse Tree

Bottom to top: Jesse, David, King (Solomon?), King, King, Mary, Jesus surrounded by seven doves (gifts of the Spirit). Prophets who testified of Christ's coming border the window.

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Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

Left:
• Elisha (Far left) - Shumanite woman beneath.
• Melchizedek - wearing crown, with bread and wine (which he gave Abraham; prefigures the Eucharist). Lamb beneath.
• Abraham - looks up at angel halting the sacrifice of Isaac. Ram beneath.
• Moses - with brazen serpent on the pole, symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Golden calf beneath.
• Samuel - sacrifices a lamb.
• King David - carries instruments of the Passion, which his Psalm 22 foretold. Beneath lion of Judah.

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Chartres, north side, right portal

LINTEL

Detail: Solomon judges the two women and the baby; servant draws sword to slay child on the far left.

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Chartres, north side, central

PILLARS, base, detail

David lays Golliath.

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Chartres, north side, center portal, detail

JAMB FIGURES

• Moses - with brazen serpent on the pole, symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Golden calf beneath.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Moses #TCS-photo #brazen serpent #cathedral #Center #Detail #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture

Window 008 - Vendome Chapel (15th century)

15th century flamboyant gothic.

• Lower rows: Donor (Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme) and wife on far right. Other members of royal family.

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