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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

Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

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

(14) Temptation: Adam takes fruit

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #arch #cathedral #Center #Detail #fall #north side #restored

Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum

• First archivolt: Pisces (fish), Gemeni (twins)
• Second archivolt: Aristotle, Dialectic

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Aristotle #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #liberal arts #Right #west side #zodiac

Chartres, north side, center portal, detail

JAMB FIGURES

• Moses - with brazen serpent on the pole, symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Golden calf beneath.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Moses #TCS-photo #brazen serpent #cathedral #Center #Detail #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Chartres, north side, center portal, detail

JAMB FIGURES

Left:
• Samuel

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Samuel #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #Detail #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #date estimate #Detail #exterior #south side #the damned #unrestored

Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum

• First archivolt: Pythagorus [head only, lower left], Music, then angel
• Second archivolt: Priscian or Donatus, Grammar, Ptolomy.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #liberal arts #Right #tympanum #west side

† 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

Chartres, south side, center, archivolt

Last judgment. Angels

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #angels #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #Detail #last judgment #south side #unrestored