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Chartres, south side, center, lintel [detail]

Beneath Christ is the resurrection. The redeemed (to Christ's right, our left) prepare for glory.

To his left, the demons take the wicked to hell. Angels above them drive them with sword and shield.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #damned #Detail #devils and demons #hell #last judgment #lintel #south side #unrestored

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

Surrounded by the four beasts and 24 elders of the apocalypse. Angels and elders hold musical instruments, censers, and vials of perfume.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #Detail #restored #stained glass

Window 064 - Noah (restored, detail)

Top to bottom, left to right [See diagram for the proper order of reading.]

• Row 01: Wheelwrights, carpenters, coopers (barrel-makers) as donors. See also donors in the very small squares bottom left and right. Perhaps appropriate given the ark's water-tight construction of wood....

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Noah #TCS-photo #Win064 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #stained glass

Window 001 - Jesse Tree, detail

Mary

Prophets who testified of Christ's coming border the window.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #12th century #Chartres #france #Jesse Tree #Mary #TCS-photo #Win001 #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #prophets #stained glass

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Window 063 - Saint Lubin / Leobinus (restored, detail)

• Row 01: Wine cryers or tavern keepers offering wine for sale.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Win063 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #stained glass

Chartres, west side, left door, archivolt (bottom to top description)

• First archivolt (inner): January with two faces, Capricorn, February with warming self before fire.

• Second archivolt (outer): October with knocking down acorns, Libra, November with pig slaughter.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #calendar of months #cathedral #Detail #exterior #Left #west side #zodiac

Chartres, south side, center, archivolt

Last judgment. Angel

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

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

Chartres, south side, center, archivolt

Last judgment. Angel

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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