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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.

ARCH
• First archivolt: ten angels, lowest two on dragons, the rest on clouds

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

• First archivolt: Aquarius (mostly broken).

• Second archivolt: Scorpio.

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Chartres, south side, left.

ARCHIVOLTS

Bottom row of the archivolt is Saint Stephen discussing with the Jews of the synagogue. He will be taken out and stoned in the lintel to the right (not shown).

• First (inner) archivolt - eight children, the Holy Innocents killed by Herod the Great at Bethlehem.
• Second - Six seated figures catch two streams of blood from a ram's head at the apex of the arch. (Refers to Revelation XXX).
• Third - Eight martyrs hold palms
• Fourth - Ten kings and bishops
• Fifth - Hierarchy of martyrs in twelve statues: levite, deacon, priest, abbot, bishop, with an emperor and pope paired at the top (to show their equality).

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Chartres, west side, left door

• First archivolt (inner): March with pruning vines (top), June with mowing hay.
• Second archivolt: Virgo, Sagittarius December with feasting [only heads of man and woman feasting are visible].

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Chartres, west side, left door

• Tympanum - Christ ascending into heaven. Angels lean down to ask the apostles "Ye men of Gallilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?"
• Archivolts - zodiac alternating with the tasks for each month
• Jamb figures - all unknown OT individuals except Moses on the right.

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Chartres, west side, left portal

• In the Tympanum (extreme top) Christ ascending into heaven. Here in the LINTEL: Angels lean down to ask the apostles "Ye men of Gallilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?" [detail]

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