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Window 010 - Saint Apollinaris, Celestial Hierarchy, Grisaille (14th century) (restored).

Two rows of grisaille were inserted in 1328, replacing older glass. Its purpose was to honor the saints whose altar had been installed before it.

• Row 02: Saints Quiricus (Cyr) and his mother, St Julitte, St Maur, St Radigonde; Canon Guillaume Theirry kneeling before the Virgin and Child; St Sulpice, St Mathurin de Laurchant, St Lifart slaying the dragon.

SAINT APOLLINARIS

• Row 03: Saint Apollinaris heals blind child (son of judge Thaurus?); Meets tribune of Ravenna; Heals tribune's wife.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Ravenna #Saint Apollinaris #TCS-photo #Win010 #cathedral #grisailles #idols #martyrs #miracles #restored #stained glass

• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]

Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.

(7) Creation of animals.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Adam #Chartres #Eve #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #creation #fall #north side #restored

Chartres, south side, window, detail

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored #sculpture

Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum

• At top: presentation at the temple
• Lintel: the Nativity story. (a) At the far left the Annunciation by the angel; (b) next Mary and Elizabeth meeting; (c) then the nativity: Joseph stands to the left, Mary lies on the altar-like bed, with the Infant Jesus on top.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #lintel #Right #tympanum #west side

Window 001 - Jesse Tree, detail

David

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

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Window-062 - Saint Eustace (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right:

†Central Diamond 1: Placidas hunts a stag.
• Row 1: Part of the hunt.
• Row 2: Part of the hunt.
• Row 3 (two circles): Sees crucifix between stag's antlers; Placidus chooses to be baptized a Christian, and receives the name Eustace.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Placidas #Saint Eustace #TCS-photo #Trajan #Win062 #cathedral #donors identified #martyrdom #restored #stained glass

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #interior #untagged

Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Second archivolt: Prophets
• Third archivolt: Jesse Tree
• Fourth archivolt: Jesse Tree continues
• Fifth archivolt: Prophets

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesse Tree #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #date estimate #Detail #exterior #north side

Chartres, south side, left

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

• 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 George #TCS-photo #cathedral #Detail #Left #south side #unrestored

Window 006 - Good Samaritan

Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:

• Quadrant 16: God forbids the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. Note the red serpent already coiled about the trunk.
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• Panel 17: They sit under the tree (a first step toward sin, perhaps?).
• Panel 18: Satan tempts them and they eat. Note the dark, ominous red background which echoes the serpent from Quadrant 16, and contrasts with the refreshing blue of the previous.
• Panel 19: God calls to them, but they hide and make fig-leaf aprons.

• Quadrant 20: Cherubim drives them from the garden and tree of life.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Adam #Chartres #Eve #Fall of Man #france #Garden of Eden #Good Samaritan #TCS-photo #Win006 #cathedral #cherubim #creation of Adam #creation of Eve #Detail #fig leaf #interior #parable #restored #serpent #stained glass #tree of knowledge of good and evil #types of Christ