Archives
ChartresGlass Box M Slides 037
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
-
• 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.
-
• Panels 9,10,11: Samaritan binds his wounds, places the man on his donkey, and takes him to a waiting inn-keeper.
-
• Quadrant 12: Samaritan cares for wounded man at the inn.
Album: Chartres-Cathedral
Categories: Chartres-Cathedral
Tags:
Chartres West Exterior Slides 077
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
Album: Chartres-Cathedral
Categories: Chartres-Cathedral
Tags:
Europe 2 1998 Slides 32
Europe 2 1998 Slides 17
RIGHT to left:
Window 130 - Modern grisailles, glass removed in 1788.
==
Window 131 - Modern grisailles, glass removed in 1788.
==
Window 132 - clerestory, west end of north choir, small-rose: King of Castille.
Album: Chartres-Cathedral
Categories: Chartres-Cathedral
Tags:
Europe 1 1998 Slides 129
ChartresGlass Box P Slides 024
† Window 095 - South rose: Christ in glory, after Revelation of St. John (unrestored, detail)
Surrounded by the four beasts and 24 elders of the apocalypse. Note the coat of arms (blue and yellow checkerboard) of the donors, Pierre Mauclerc of Dreux-Brittany
Album: Chartres-Cathedral
Categories: Chartres-Cathedral
Tags:
Chartres South Exterior Slides 016
Chartres, south side, right
TYMPANUM and LINTEL
Christ (note the cruciform nimbus behind his head) flanked by two angels.
Left side
• St. Martin meets beggar at Amiens and cuts his cloak in half; story continues above where...
• Martin lies asleep with his servant. He sees Christ wearing half of the cloak (the other half which Martin kept can be seen on the wall above his sleeping form).
Right side:
• St. Nicholas (center right) drops money down into the home of a poor family whose father is too ill to provide proper dowries for his three daughters. They had been destined to prostitution.
• Above, St. Nicholas' bier provides healing oil which oozes from him. Pilgrims are applying the oil, and have containers in which to bear some away.
Album: Chartres-Cathedral
Categories: Chartres-Cathedral
Tags:
ChartresGlass Box M Slides 132
Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).
• 1-5: Apothicaries and haberdashers as donors. (3): Selling belt; (4): apothecary; (5) merchant with balance.
• 6-7: Saint Nicholas is birthed and bathed.
• 8: Nicholas refuses to suckle his mother except Mondays and Fridays.
• 9: Nicholas in school.
• 10-11: When a student in Myra, he drops money into a house to spare three girls without doweries from entering prostitution. He flees rather than be thanked.
• 12: Chosen as new bishop.
(Side half moons):
• 14-15: Nicholas convinces sailors to provide a famine-stricken down with corn.
Album: Chartres-Cathedral
Categories: Chartres-Cathedral
Tags:
ChartresGlass Box M Slides 130
Window 059 - Symbolic Window, Typology of the Passion of Christ (restored)
NB: Read TOP to BOTTOM, unlike most windows. Some are modern (marked *).
• Row 08: Abraham takes Isaac to Mount Moriah for sacrifice; Descent from the Cross; Abraham is stopped from sacrificing Isaac.
• Row 07: Jonah near Ninevah (*).
• Row 06: Moses shows brass serpent; Adam collects blood at the foot of the cross (*); Israelites mark their doorposts with blood of the lamb (tau).
• Row 05: The Church (the NT, new faith); Crucifixion with Longinus and Stephaton (*); Synagogue (the OT, old faith).
• Row 04: Gideon sees angel (*).
• Row 03: Christ is mocked and crowned with thorns; Israelite scouts return from promised land with evidence of its richeness; The Scourging of Christ.
• Row 02: Women weep at the Crucifixion; Jesus carries the cross (*); Soldiers preparing for the crucifixion.
• Row 01: Christ (with candelabra) (*).
Album: Chartres-Cathedral
Categories: Chartres-Cathedral
Tags: