LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, north side, center portal
INNER ARCH
• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]
Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.
(16) God appears to judge Adam and Eve's sin (also carrying book as previous when he gave them law in the garden)
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Chartres, south side, center, archivolt
Last judgment. Resurrection
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Window 063 - Saint Lubin / Leobinus (restored, detail)
• Row 01: Wine cryers or tavern keepers offering wine for sale.
• Surrounding border: Wine cryers or tavern keepers offering wine for sale.
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Chartres, west side, left door. archivalts
• First archivolt (inner): Taurus, June with mowing hay.
• Second archivolt (outer): Leo, September with treading grapes
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Chartres, west side, left portal
• In the Tympanum (not shown) Christ ascending into heaven. Here in the LINTEL: Angels lean down to ask the apostles "Ye men of Gallilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?" [detail]
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Window 013 - Story of Saint Anthony of the Desert and Saint Paul the Anchorite (restored)
Top to bottom, left to right, including medallions.
• Row 06: Anthony asks friend to bring him bread in preparation for his hermitage in the desert; Devils come to attack Anthony in the hermitage.
• Row 07 (center): This is slightly out of sequence: Anthony's friend brings bread and finds him immobilized by the pain of the scourging given in the next row up.
• Row 08: Demons scourge Anthony with whips; Anthony appears dead (like a corpse, so his friend carries the immobilized saint back to the desert on his back
• Row 09: Anthony visits Paul the Anchorite as a crow feeds them; Anthony studies alone in his cell.
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Window 105 - Clerestory, west end of south choir, lancet: Nativity, Flight into Egypt.
All borders in the choir are modern.
Donor, Colinus de camera regis, playing chess with another man.
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Window 106 - Clerestory, west end of south choir, lancet: Saint John the Evangelist and Saint James Major, adoration of the magi
All borders in the choir are modern.
Donor, Bouchard de Marty
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Window 107 - Clerestory, west end of south choir, small rose: Knight
Knight, member of Beaumont family.
There are a total of 7 knights or lords on either side of the choir, leading to the sanctuary.
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TYMPANUM and LINTEL
Left side
• St. Martin meets beggar at Amiens and cuts his cloak in half; story continues above
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