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Chartres, north side, right portal

OUTER GABLE

• Pedestals recount the arts (L to R):
† Music (Jubal playing the lyre)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #north side #restored #Right

Window 007 - Death and Assumption of Mary (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right.

• Row 1: Cobblers, donors of the window
• Medallion 2: Apostles around Mary's deathbed
• Medallion 3 (small): Jesus receives soul (small child).
• Medallion 4: Mary's funeral (note the coffin held up at the top).
• Medallion 5 (small): Angels with censers
• Medallion 6:

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Assumption of Mary #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Mary #Queen of Heaven #TCS-photo #Win007 #angels #apostles #burial of Mary #cathedral #censers #date estimate #death of Mary #donors identified #stained glass

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #rose window #west side

Chartres west side, right portal

• Second archivolt: Astronomy

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #liberal arts #restored #Right #west side

† Window 145 - North rose: Rose of France glorifying the Virgin (restored)

Virgin in center with Infant Jesus. Surrounded by four doves, four angels, and four Thrones. These are followed by twelve kings of Judah, Mary's ancestors. The outer ring contains twelve minor prophets.

The window was donated while Queen Blanche was regent of France (circa 1230). The arms of France alternating with Castile are seen below the rose itself. The entire ensemble is a none-too-subtle bit of royal propaganda, with Mary (the Queen of Heaven) at the center of it all. Note too that the figures below the rose in the lancets contrast a legitimate righteous sovereign with corrupt, foolish, or fallen ones. Blanche seems to have wanted no doubt about how she ought to be considered.

†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored)

• Window 145C - North side, far left lancet: Melchizedek standing over Nebuchadnezzar (true king over the false Babylonian pretender to world-lordship, worshipping idol of his dream).

• Window 145B - North side, near left lancet: King David standing over King Saul (the chosen king over the apostate king rejected by God, who dies via suicide in despair).

• Window 145A - North side, central lancet: Saint Anne holding Infant Mary. Beneath this are the arms of France.

• 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).

• Window 145E - North side, far right lancet: Aaron above Pharoah, covered by the Red Sea (true priesthood and power over the false).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Aaron #Babylon #Blanche of Castille #Chartres #france #Infant Mary #Jeroboam #Jesus Christ #King David #Mary #Mary enthroned in glory #Melchizedek #Nuchadnezzar #Pharoah #Red Sea #Saint Anne #Saul #Solomon #TCS-photo #Win145 #Win145A #Win145B #Win145C #Win145D #Win145E #angels #cathedral #donors identified #doves #golden calf #kings of Judah #lancet window #minor prophets #new imports #north side #restored #rose window #stained glass #thrones #whole-windows

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Greg's kids France 2015 #TCS-photo #cathedral #untagged #ville

Window 005 - Mary Magdalen (restored, detail)

• Panels 1,2,3: Water-bearers, the donors of the window

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Mary Magdalen #TCS-photo #Win005 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #stained glass

Chartres, north portal, center portal

original (4295137983)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chanelle Smith Fibke #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture #stone reliefs

Window 056 - Peace Window (20th century)

Donated in 1971 by German Association of Friends of Chartres Cathedral. Theme of peace and reconcilliation.

Four crosses make up the window.
• Lowest Center bears the Ten Commandments, source of salvation.
• Left - Burning bush (revelation through natural phenomenon)
• Right - Menorrah

• 2nd Center - Altar and rainbow (the covenant)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #10 commandments #20th century #7 gifts of the spirit #Chartres #Eucharist #france #TCS-photo #Win056 #altar #cathedral #covenant #date estimate #modern-glass #rainbow #stained glass #unrestored

Window 061 - Joseph, Son of Jacob (unrestored)

Bottom to top, left to right

• Row 01 (half moons): Bankers, as donors
• Row 02: Joseph's dream, with sun, moon, and stars bowing down to him.
• Row 03: Jacob sends Joseph to his brothers; Brothers plot against Joseph
• Row 04: Brothers put into pit.
• Row 05 (half moons): Sold to Ishmaelite traders as slave; they bring the coat of many colors to Jacob.
• Row 06: Sold to Potiphar; Potiphar's wife tempts him
• Row 07: She accuses him to Potiphar.
• Row 08: Potiphar arrests Joseph; Has him thrown into prison.
• Row 09: Pharaoh dreams
• Row 10: Seven fat sheep, seven thin cattle of Pharaoh's dream; Meanwhile, in prison, Joseph interprets dreams of cupbearer and baker.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Egypt #france #Jacob #Joseph son of Jacob #Potiphar #Potiphar's wife #TCS-photo #Win061 #cathedral #date estimate #donors identified #dreams #stained glass #types of Christ #unrestored