LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, north side, right portal
LINTEL
Detail: Solomon judges the two women and the baby. Here on the right are admiring Jews (who ought, one suspects, to be admiring the wisdom of Christ whose wisdom and judgment Solomon prefigures.)
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Chartres, North side, right portal
INNER ARCH
• Third archivolt: life of Esther
Left:
† Mordecai sends messenger with new degree permitting the Jews to defend themselves if attacked.
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Chartres, west side, right portal, left hand side (L - R)
• Unknown OT figure
• Unknown OT figure
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Chartres, west side, right portal
• Lintel: the Nativity story.Joseph stands to the left, Mary lies on the altar-like bed, with the Infant Jesus on top
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Chartres west side, right portal
• First archivolt: Pisces (fish)
• Second archivolt: Aristotle
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Chartres, north side, center portal
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• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]
(1) Creation of heaven and earth;
(2) Creation of day and night [can't see]. Left figure likely not divine since no nimbus, but instead is the author of Genesis;
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South porth, right portal--"Bay of the Confessors"
Figures L - R
Left side
• St Laumer, monk of Perche [added at porch construction]
• St. Silvester (pope dress)
• St. Ambrose (bishop of Milan), converted St. Augustine and is the first person of whom we have record reading silently to himself, rather than aloud.
• St. Nicholas (bishop of Myra, from when Santa Claus).
Right side
• St. Gregory (pope dress)
• St. Jerome (translated Bible into Latin, the "Vulgate"). Beneath him is a woman with bandaged eyes (the 'blind' synagogue replaced by the Church)
• St. Martin (bishop of Tours). Two dogs lick his bishop's staff, since he reportedly prevented them from eating a hare by miraculous means. Martin gets further attention in the tympanum above the door.
• St. Avitus, abbot of Micy [added at porch construction].
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Chartres, North side, right portal
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• Second archivolt: lives of Gideon on the right
† Dragon;
† Gideon visited by angel while he winnows corn;
Third archivolt: life of Judith (prefiguring Mary)
† Head of Holofernes
† Judith speaks with King Ozias, rebukes him for surrendering the town;
• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel (continued from left half of arch).
† Tobias returns and cures his father's blindness;
† Crowned head.
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