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Jeroboam
• Window 145D - North side, near right lancet: Solomon over Jeroboam, who worships golden calf (wise king over the fool who worshipped idols and abandoned the LORD)
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Chartres South Exterior Slides 030
Zodiac / Labours of the Months
Chartres, west side, left door, archivolt (bottom to top description)
• First archivolt (inner): Capricorn, February with warming self before fire, Aquarius.
• Second archivolt (outer): Libra, November with pig slaughter, Scorpio.
• Christ is seen in the upper left corner.
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Window 005 - Mary Magdalen (detail, restored)
• Panels 1,2,3: Water-bearers, the donors of the window
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• Window 145D - North side, near right lancet: Solomon over Jeroboam, who worships golden calf (wise king over the fool who worshipped idols and abandoned the LORD).
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St. Stephen’s Window South-east apsidal chapel Chartres Cathedra
Window 041 - Saint Stephen
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01: Shoemakers working as donor; Presenting the window from donors.
• Row 02: Stephen made a deacon by two apostles.
• Row 03: Stephen debates (L) with the Jewish doctors (R).
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St. Stephen’s WindowSouth-east apsidal chapel Chartres Cathedral
Window 041 - Saint Stephen
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 05: Stephen taken outside the city to be stoned (partially visible).
• Row 06: A false witness leaves his coat with Saul, the future Saint Paul; Stephen is stoned to death.
• Row 07: Gamaliel, one of the Sanhedrin, advised that the early Christian movement not be attacked by the Jews, reasoning that if it was of men it would come to naught, and if of God they did not want to fight it. Heis sympathetic and buries Stephen in his own sepulchre; Juliana, a widow, searches for her husband's body.
• Row 08: Juliana mistakes Stephen's body for that of her husband, and takes it home.
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