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South porch, left portal.

Jamb Figures (L to R) from left side of left portal

Saint Maurice [13th century, from period of porch addition]

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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

• Saint George [13th century, from period of porch addition]

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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Chartres, west side, left door. archivalts

• First archivolt (inner): Taurus, June with mowing hay.

• Second archivolt (outer): Leo, September with treading grapes

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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Chartres, west side, left portal

• In the Tympanum (not shown) 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]

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Chartres, south side, left

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

• Saint Piat [deacon dress]
• Saint George [13th century, from period of porch addition] Beneath him he is martyred by being broken on the wheel.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #Saint Piat #TCS-photo #cathedral #Left #south side #unrestored

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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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

INNER ARCH

• First archivolt: ten angels, lowest two on dragons, the rest on clouds
• Second archivolt: four foolish virgins on left, four foolish on the right
• Third archivolt: bottom on each side contain the other two virgins for a total of ten.

• Third, continued: The four cardinal virtues and equivalent sins are on the left:
† Prudence (open book) with Folly underneath (woman eating a pebble);
† Justice (scales) with Injustice (falsify scales);

• Fourth archivolt: Twelve queens bearing scrolls that at one time bore their names; these are the fruits of the spirit as per Galatians 5:22-23.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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