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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Unknown-GLS #cathedral #restored #untagged

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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Balaam #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #Queen of Sheba #Solomon #TCS-photo #Unknown-GLS #Ass #cathedral #Center #north side #restored #Right #Slave

Chartres, west side, right portal, Capitals:

• Temptation in the wilderness
• Two high priests bribe Judas

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #TCS-photo #Temptation of Christ #Unknown-GLS #baptism of Christ #capitals #cathedral #life of Christ #restored #Right #west side

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

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

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #Solomon #TCS-photo #Unknown-GLS #cathedral #Center #Detail #north side #restored #Right

Chartres, north side, center portal, night illumination

JAMB FIGURES

Right:
• Isaiah - hold flowering stem, the "rod out of Jesse." Jessee beneath.
• Jeremiah - with Greek cross
• Simeon - testified of Christ at the Presentation at the Temple, holds the infant Christ.
• John the Baptist - note coat of camel hair, and he points to the lamb of God. Dragon beneath.
• Peter - dressed as pope, the continuity with Melchizedek, his opposite on the left. He stands on the rock.

Foreground: ? OT Figures

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Greek cross #Isaiah #Jeremiah #John the Baptist #Peter #Presentation at the Temple #Simeon #TCS-photo #Unknown figures #Unknown-GLS #cathedral #dragon #exterior #night #restored

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Unknown-GLS #cathedral #exterior #new imports #restored #sculpture #south side #stone reliefs

Chartres west side, right portal, left hand side
• Unknown OT figure

Door post
• Unknown

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Unknown-GLS #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #Right #west side