LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
INNER ARCH
• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]
(6) Creation of birds and fish. To the left, Adam is in God's mind [detail].
Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.
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Chartres, North side, right portal
INNER ARCH
• Second archivolt: life of Sampson on the left
Left:
† Lion (which Samson slays; bottom right corner of photo);
† Samson's parents offer sacrifice (note flames and angel);
† Samson slays lion;
• Third archivolt: lives of Esther
† Ahasuerus king of Persia (head beneath seated figures);
† Ahasuerus weds Esther;
† Ahasuerus speaks with Haman and Mordecai;
• 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.
† Tobit buries the Jew (partially visible upper left).
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Resurrection at the Last Judgment.
Note Abraham's bosom in the second figure from the right.
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Chartres, north side, left portal
TYMPANUM
• Adoration of the Magi and then warned not to return to Herod.
LINTEL:
• Left: Nativity
INNER ARCH
• First archivolt: ten angels, lowest two on dragons, the rest on clouds
• Second archivolt: four foolish virgins on left, four foolish on the right
• Third archivolt: bottom on each side contain the other two virgins for a total of ten.
• Third, continued: The four cardinal virtues and equivalent sins are on the left:
† Prudence (open book) with Folly underneath (woman eating a pebble);
† Justice (scales) with Injustice (falsify scales);
• Fourth archivolt: Twelve queens bearing scrolls that at one time bore their names; these are the fruits of the spirit as per Galatians 5:22-23.
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Chartres, north side, center portal
INNER ARCH
• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]
(6) Creation of birds and fish. To the left, Adam is in God's mind.
(7) Creation of animals.
(8) Garden of Eden.
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Chartres, west side, left door
• First archivolt (inner): Aries, May with falconer and horse
• Second archivolt: July with wheat cutting, Cancer, August with wheat threshing
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Chartres, west side, left portal
• Tympanum - Christ ascending into heaven.
• Archivolt - Taurus, June Mows Hay, March prunes vines, Aquarius (mostly broken).
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Chartres west side, right portal
• Second archivolt: Grammar
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Chartres, north side, center portal
INNER ARCH
• First archivolt: twelve angels
• Second archivolt: Prophets
• Third archivolt: Jesse Tree
• Fourth archivolt: Jesse Tree continues
• Fifth archivolt: Prophets
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Chartres, north side, center portal
INNER ARCH
• First archivolt: twelve angels
• Second archivolt: Prophets
• Third archivolt: Jesse Tree
• Fourth archivolt: Jesse Tree continues
• Fifth archivolt: Prophets
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