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† Window 095 - South rose: Christ in glory, after Revelation of St. John (unrestored, detail)

Surrounded by the four beasts and 24 elders of the apocalypse. Note the coat of arms (blue and yellow checkerboard) of the donors, Pierre Mauclerc of Dreux-Brittany

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #24 Elders of the Apocalypse #4 Beasts of the Apocalypse #Chartres #Christ in Glory #Dreux #france #Jesus Christ #Revelation #TCS-photo #Win095 #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #donors identified #rose window #south side #stained glass #unrestored

Window 035 - Saint Simon and Saint Jude (restored, detail)

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 10: Chariots of the pagan moon and sun (which the apostles would not worship)
• Row 11: Two angels (modern) replaced an older scene showing the saints' martyrdom.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Baradach #Chartres #france #Hindu #India #Saint Jude #Saint Simon #TCS-photo #Win035 #cathedral #donors identified #idols #magicians #martyrs #mercy #miracles #modern-glass #restored #soothsayers #stained glass

Chartres, north side, left portal

JAMB FIGURES

• Left: Annunciation (Gabriel treading on devil; Mary treading on serpent).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored

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†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored)

• Window 145C - North side, far left lancet: Melchizedek standing over Nebuchadnezzar (true king over the false Babylonian pretender to world-lordship, worshipping idol of his dream).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Babylon #Chartres #france #Melchizedek #Nuchadnezzar #TCS-photo #Win145C #cathedral #donors identified #lancet window #north side #restored #stained glass

Window 056 - Peace Window (20th century)

Donated in 1971 by German Association of Friends of Chartres Cathedral. Theme of peace and reconcilliation.

Four crosses make up the window.
• Lowest Center bears the Ten Commandments, source of salvation.
• Left - Burning bush (revelation through natural phenomenon)
• Right - Menorrah

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #10 commandments #20th century #7 gifts of the spirit #Chartres #Eucharist #france #TCS-photo #Win056 #altar #cathedral #covenant #modern-glass #rainbow #restored #stained glass

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #stained glass #unrestored #untagged

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #date estimate #Detail #exterior #last judgment #resurrection #south side #unrestored

Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

Left:
• Elisha (Far left) - Shumanite woman beneath.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Elisha #france #Jamb figures #Shumanite woman #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture

Window 006 - Good Samaritan (restored, detail)

Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:
• Panels 1,2,3: Cobblers, the donors of the window

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Fall of Man #france #Good Samaritan #TCS-photo #Win006 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #parable #restored #stained glass #types of Christ

Jamb Figures (L to R) from right side of center portal

• Paul (note the omnipresent baldness) with sword, instrument of his beheading.
• St. John (no beard, young, dressed as priest; has book in left hand and broken palm--symbol of chastity--in the right.) Stands on a man offering cup of serpents, cf miracle he performed.
• St. James the Greater (of Peter, James, and John). Has belt of shells--the "coquilles St. Jacques" [scallops] were his symbol and often worn by pilgrims.
• St James the Less
• St. Bartholomew (broken flaying knife; instrument of his martyrdom).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #Mardi Smith Bissett #Megan Bissett #TCS-photo #Travis Bissett #cathedral #Center #exterior #south side #unrestored