LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, north side, center portal
• Pillar bases: RIGHT: [right to left]
(e) Ark brought into Philistine temple to Dagon, causes the idol to fall; (f) Ark sent back by cart drawn by two bulls (bulls not seen). Note the fleurs-de-lis style hindges or bindings on the chest. ? possible tablets with ten commandments peeking out of the ark?
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†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (unrestored)
• 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).
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Chartres, west facade
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Window 014 - Temptation of Christ, Marriage at Cana, Blue Virgin (detail, unrestored)
• Upper half: Mary with the Infant Christ. The three panels containing Mary and Christ, along with the three lancet windows beneath the western rose, are the sole remaining example of the glass from the cathedral largely destroyed in the fire of 1194, dating to approximately AD 1180. The face of Mary is modern; note how she is shaped almost throne-like as Christ sits enthroned upon her. Often called "Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière" (Our Lady of the Beautiful Stained Glass Window). The framing panels and remainder of the window are from the current cathedral--circa 1215 - 1220.
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Chartres, north side, right portal
OUTER GABLE
• Saint Modesta, daughter of Roman governor Quirinus, an early martyr of Chartres.
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RIGHT to LEFT
Window 118 - 2nd right, clerestory, apse: Daniel and Jeremiah
Clothiers as donors, Daniel, Jeremiah, Winged creature from Ezekiel's vision with face of a man.
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Window 119 - 1st right, clerestory, apse: Moses and Isaiah
Bakers as donors, Moses with burning bush, Isaiah, Angel with Censer.
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Window 120 - Center, clerestory, apse: Mary
Bakers as donors, Annunciation, Visitation, Mary as queen
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Window 121 - 1st left, clerestory, apse: Aaron
Geoffery, a hosier, and his wife as donors, Aaron and Angel with Censer.
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Window 122 - 2nd left, clerestory, apse: Aaron
Butchers as donors, Ezekiel, Daniel, cherub
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Chartres, north side, center portal
INNER ARCH
• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall.
(15) Adam and Eve hide
(16) God appears to judge Adam and Eve's sin
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Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.
JAMB Figures
Left:
• Balaam on his ass;
• Queen of Sheba on Ethiopian slave;
• Solomon.
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