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Chartres South Exterior Slides 090

Chartres South Exterior Slides 090

Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum

• At top: infant Jesus enthroned on Mary's lap flanked by two angels
• Below: presentation at the temple
• Lintel: the Nativity story. (a) At the far left the Annunciation by the angel; (b) next Mary and Elizabeth meeting; (c) then the nativity: Joseph stands to the left, Mary lies on the altar-like bed, with the Infant Jesus on top; finally (d) at the far right, the angel brings glad tidings to the shepherds.

• First archivolt: Pisces (fish), Gemeni (twins), then 6 angels, Music (one of the seven liberal arts), Pythagorus (first defined mathematical relationship of harmonious tones).
• Second archivolt: Aristotle, Dialectic, Cicero, Rhetoric..obscured..then Astronomy, Ptolemy, Grammar, Priscian or Donatus.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Tags: #Chartres #france #Infant Jesus #Mary #Nativity #Presentation at the Temple #TCS-photo #angels #Archivolt #calendar of months #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #liberal arts #restored #Right #tympanum #west side #zodiac

Chartres North Exterior Slides 117

Chartres North Exterior Slides 117

Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• First archivolt: twelve angels bearing sun, moon, and stars.
• Second archivolt: life of Gideon
Right: (story starts in bottom left of arch, so these events are in reverse order)

† Gideon visited by angel while he winnows corn;
† Dragon (beneath);

• Third archivolt: life Judith (prefiguring Mary)

Right: (story starts in bottom left of arch, so these events are in reverse order)

† Judith speaks with King Ozias, rebukes him for surrendering the town;
† Head of Holofernes

• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel (starting at top of arch, continued from bottom left of the arch);

† Raphael the angel binds Asmodeus (who had been slaying Sarah's husbands)--partially visible;
† Tobias returns and cures his father's blindness;
† Crowned head.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Ahasuerus #Asmodeus #Chartres #Esther #france #Gideon #Holofernes #Judith #Mordecai #Raguel #Samson #TCS-photo #Tobias #Tobit #Archivolt #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #north side #Right