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Chartres, south side, right--"Bay of the Confessors"

TYMPANUM and LINTEL [detail]

Right side:

• St. Nicholas (center right) drops money down into the home of a poor family whose father is too ill to provide proper dowries for his three daughters. They had been destined to prostitution.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Nicholas #TCS-photo #cathedral #Right #south side #unrestored

Window 024 - Saint Martin of Tours

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Saint Martin gives half of his cloak to a beggar; Cobbler preparing leather as donor; Christ thanks Martin in a dream and returns his cloak.
• Row 02: Cobbler scraping hide as donor; Martin is baptized; Cobbler stitches shoe as donor.
• Row 03: Martin revives a catachumen who died prior to baptism; Cobbler trimming sole of shoe as donor; Saint Hillaire makes Martin an exorcist.
• Row 04: Martin is attacked by two ruffians, one saves his life; The brigands waiting to attack; Martin escapes by making a pine tree fall on the brigands.
• Row 05: The people of Tours seek a new bishop (both sides); Martin ordained bishop (middle).
• Row 06: Martin forces robber's soul out of a shrine, where it was being mistakenly honored as a martyr; People watch; Martin raises a child from the dead (some say he interrupts a country funeral to make sure they are not practicing paganism).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Emperor Maximus #france #Jesus Christ #Paris #Saint Martin #TCS-photo #Tetradius #Win024 #cathedral #date estimate #donors identified #exorcism #funeral #lepers #martyrs #miracles #stained glass #unrestored

Chartres, west side, left portal, archivolt.

• First archivolt (inner): April with tree blossoming, Aries

• Second archivolt (outer): July with wheat cutting, Cancer, August with wheat threshing, Leo.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #calendar of months #cathedral #Detail #Left #unrestored #west side #zodiac

Chartres, west side, left portal

• Jamb figures - all unknown OT individuals.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #TCS-photo #Unknown figures #cathedral #Left #restored #west side

West facade of Notre Dame de Chartres

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #distance view #exterior #new imports #west side

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Window 120 - Center, clerestory, apse: Mary

Visitation, Mary as Queen with Jesus enthroned.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Elizabeth #france #Jesus Christ #Mary #TCS-photo #Visitation #Win120 #apse #cathedral #clerestory #donors identified #lancet #restored #stained glass

Window 059 - Symbolic Window, Typology of the Passion of Christ (restored, detail)

NB: Read TOP to BOTTOM, unlike most windows. Some are modern (marked *).

• Row 12: (Bottom row): Blacksmiths as donors.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Win059 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #stained glass

†South side, lancets, left to right: demonstrates the OT as the foundation for the NT witness of Christ (restored, detail)

• Window 095A - South side, central lancet: Mary with Infant Christ, beneath is arms of donor Dreux-Brittany

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #4 evangelists #Chartres #Dreux #france #Infant Christ #Mary #TCS-photo #Win095A #beneath is arms of donor Dreux-Brittany. #cathedral #donors identified #lancet windows #restored #shoulders of giants #south side #stained glass

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #distance view #exterior #north tower #restored #west side