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Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.

JAMB Figures
Left:
• Solomon, base detail ?Unknown-GLS

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Chartres, south side, right

JAMB Figures L - R

Left side

• 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.

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Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel [right half]

† Tobias meets Raguel, Sarah's father;

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Window 006 - Good Samaritan (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:
• Panels 1,2,3: Cobblers, the donors of the window
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• Quadrant 4: Jesus tells a parable.
• Quadrant 5: Man leaves Jerusalem for Jericho
• Center 6, quadrant 7: Thieves leap out to attack and rob him
• Quadrant 8: Priest and levite pass by without helping.
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• Panels 9,10,11: Samaritan binds his wounds, places the man on his donkey, and takes him to a waiting inn-keeper.
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• Quadrant 12: Samaritan cares for wounded man at the inn.

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Chartres, north side, left portal, detail

LINTEL:
• Left: Nativity

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Chartres, north side, left portal

TYMPANUM
• Adoration of the Magi and then warned not to return to Herod.

LINTEL:
• Left: Nativity
• Right: Angel appears to shepherds.

ARCH
• First archivolt: ten angels, lowest two on dragons, the rest on clouds

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Tags: #Adoration of the Magi #Chartres #france #Herod #Nativity #TCS-photo #angels #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #Left #lintel #north side #tympanum