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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #Left #night #restored #Right #rose window #west side

Chartres, north side, center portal.

JAMB FIGURES

Left:

• 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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

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

(15) Adam and Eve make aprons (at the devil's instigation?)

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Chartres, south side, center, archivolt

Last judgment, demons with the damned.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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Chartres, north side, center portal

Pillar base, David slays Golliath

original (4295137973)

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Chartres west side, central portal, right hand side (L - R)

JAMB Figures

• Unknown prophet
• King David
• Queen of Sheba
• Solomon

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Chartres west side, central portal, right hand side (L - R)

• King David
• Queen of Sheba

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #date estimate #Detail #exterior #west side

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #Left #night #restored #Right #rose window #west side