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Window 064 - Noah (restored, detail)
Top to bottom, left to right [See diagram for the proper order of reading.]
• Row 01: Wheelwrights, carpenters, coopers (barrel-makers) as donors. See also donors in the very small squares bottom left and right. Perhaps appropriate given the ark's water-tight construction of wood....
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Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.
Right:
• Jesus ben Sirach, standing on the temple whose reconstruction was wrongly attributed to him;
• Judith, standing on dog as symbol of fidelity;
• Joseph who was sold into Egypt, standing on Potipher's wife to whom the devil whispers.
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Chartres, north side, right portal, archivolt
OUTER ARCH
• First archivolt: months with accompanying activities: February warms by fire, March prunes vines, April holds corn, May falcoln on fist
• Second archivolt: Aquarius, Pieces, Aries, Taurus
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Window 004 - Saint John the Divine [author of Revelation / the Apocalypse]
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01 [single]: Flight to Egypt (misplaced; doesn't fit with the rest)
• Rows 02 & 03: Armorers donate the window
• Row 04: Death of Stactacus
• Row 05 & 06: John banished to Patmos; he writes Revelation.
• Row 07: John summoned before Aristomedes
• Rows 08 & 09: John enters Ephesus and raises a woman from the dead; on-lookers are amazed.
• Row 10: John drinks poison and receives no harm.
• Rows 11 & 12: Two young men crush gems; John makes gems whole again.
• Row 13: Jesus appears to John.
• Rows 14 & 15: John changes wood to gold and pebbles into gems. Man gives treasure to money-changer.
• Row 16: John awaits death.
• Rows 17 & 18 & 19: Angels
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Chartres, west side, right portal, Capitals:
• Temptation in the wilderness
• Two high priests bribe Judas
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Chartres, north side, center portal
JAMB FIGURES
Right:
• Isaiah - hold flowering stem, the "rod out of Jesse." Jessee beneath.
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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 10: Elijah raises son of widow of Sareptha; Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh; Elijah meets widow of Sareptha.
• Row 09: King David with pelican feeding young on her own blood.
• Row 08: Abraham takes Isaac to Mount Moriah for sacrifice; Descent from the Cross; Abraham is stopped from sacrificing Isaac.
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