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Chartres South Exterior Slides 058
South porch, Left portal, "Bay of the Martyrs"
Jamb Figures (L to R) from left side of left portal
• Saint Maurice [13th century, from period of porch addition]
• Saint Stephen [deacon's dress] (His story is also told in the lintel.)
• Saint Clement [pope's dress]
• Saint Lawrence [deacon's dress]
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Chartres North Exterior Slides 115
Chartres, North side, right portal
INNER ARCH
• First archivolt: twelve angels bearing sun, moon, and stars.
• Second archivolt: life of Gideon
Right: (story starts in bottom left of arch, so these events are in reverse order)
† Dressed in armor (medieval!) he leads two Mideanites captive after defeating them in battle.
† Gideon wrings water from fleece;
† Gideon offers sacrifice;
† Gideon visited by angel while he winnows corn;
† Dragon;
• Third archivolt: life Judith (prefiguring Mary)
Right: (story starts in bottom left of arch, so these events are in reverse order)
† Judith has cut of head of Holofernes, which servant places in sack.
† Kneels at foot of Holofernes (note parallels with Esther opposite);
• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel (starting at top of arch, continued from bottom left of the arch);
† Tobias travels with dog (fidelity) and angel watching;
† Tobias meets Raguel, Sarah's father;
† Tobias marries Sarah, and they pray in bedroom on wedding night;
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ChartresGlass Box P Slides 013
Window 064 - Noah (unrestored)
Top to bottom, left to right
• Row 08: Drowning of all other animals and people (two panels).
• Row 09: Drowning of all other animals and people; Noah releases dove from window of the ark; Dove flies away and returns with olive leaf.
• Row 10: Corpses of men and animals remain when water dries up (two panels).
• Row 11: Raven eats the drowned corpses; Animals leaving ark (two panels).
• Row 12: Noah and family leave ark; Animals leave ark.
• Row 13: Noah makes wine (from vines above); Noah curses Ham; Noah gets drunk.
• Row 14: Planting of first vines (made into wine in previous row); Shem and Japheth (with wives) kneel to pray.
• Row 15: Angel, Rainbow, Angel.
• Row 16: Angel, Angel.
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Chartres West Exterior Slides 098
Chartres, north side, center portal
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.
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Window 015 – Virgin with suckling child, occulus (restored)
Europe 2 1998 Slides 01
Window 102 - South trancept, clerestory, north-west side, lancet: Saint Denis and the Oriflamme (unrestored)
Knight Jean Clement receives the Oriflamme from Saint Denis.
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Window 103 - South trancept, clerestory, north-west side, lancet: Saint Christopher & Saint Nicaise (unrestored)
Donor: Priest named Geoffery, Saint Christopher & Saint Nicaise
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Window 104 - South trancept, clerestory, north-west side, small-rose: John the Baptist (unrestored)
Win102, John the Baptist, clerestory, lancet, lamb of God
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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 040
Window 007 - Death and Assumption of Mary
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: Mary placed in the tomb surrounded by apostles.
• Medallion 7 (small): Mary's bodily assumption to heaven, flanked by two angels.
• Medallion 8: Jesus crowns Mary as Queen of Heaven.
• Medallion 9 (small): Angels bear the crown.
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Europe 1 1998 Slides 137
RIGHT to left:
Window 065 - Clerestory, nave, south-west, lancet: Saint Mary of Egypt
Saint Mary of Egypt, meets Zozimus, is buried.
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Window 066 - Clerestory, nave, south-west, lancet: Saint Laumer
Saint Laumer, abbot of Corbion. Lying on his death bed, and visited by Saint Malard.
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Window 067 - Clerestory, name, south-west, small-rose: Abbot, unknown
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