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Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]

Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.

(10) Creation of Eve -- also with naming of animals, as Adam named Eve.
(11) Four rivers out of Eden
(12) & (13) Adam and Even happy in Eden

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Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [top to bottom]

(12) & (13) Adam and Even happy in Eden (Adam sleep at top, possible name animals to the right)

(14) Temptation [note serpent coiled round tree next to eat, Adan is the archivolt to the right and downward]

(15) Adam and Eve hide

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Chartres West Exterior Slides 082

Chartres, north side, left portal

TYMPANUM
• Adoration of the Magi and then warned not to return to Herod.

LINTEL:
• Left: Nativity
• Right: Angel appears to shepherds.

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 three theological virtues and equivalent sins.
† Faith (chalice receiving blood of the Lamb) with Infidelity (eyes bandaged).

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