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Window 007 - Death and Assumption of Mary (unrestored)
Bottom to top, left to right.
• 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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† Window 145 - North rose: Rose of France glorifying the Virgin (unrestored)
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 (unrestored)
• 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).
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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, south side, right--"Bay of the Confessors"
ARCHIVOLT - angels and kings
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South porch, central portal. Christ in center, standing on lion and dragon (2 of the 4 animals in Psalm 92; Amiens has the other two--asp and basilisk--underneath).
Apostles (L -> R)
Left side
• Unknown apostle
• Unknown apostle
• Unknown apostle
• Unknown apostle
• St. Peter (immediately to Christ's right as head of the Church and holder of the keys of the kingdom). Beneath: Simon the Magician with large purse.
• St. Andrew - bears cross, instrument of his martyrdom
Right side
• Paul (note the omnipresent baldness) with sword, instrument of his beheading.
• St. John (no beard, young, dressed as priest; has book in left hand and broken palm--symbol of chastity--in the right.) Stands on a man offering cup of serpents, cf miracle he performed.
• St. James the Greater (of Peter, James, and John). Has belt of shells--the "coquilles St. Jacques" [scallops] were his symbol and often worn by pilgrims.
• St James the Less
• St. Bartholomew (broken flaying knife; instrument of his martyrdom).
Many apostles stand on crowned figures representing the Roman Emperors who caused their demise.
Beneath Christ:
• A man giving bread to the poor, which is essentially offering it to Christ
• Beneath him, a man and wife offering bread to a beggar; likely the donors Pierre Mauclerc, Count of Dreux, and spouse Alix of Brittany.
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Detail of lion and dragon under Christ's feet (2 of the 4 animals in Psalm 92; Amiens has the other two--asp and basilisk--underneath).
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Window 133 - clerestory, west end of north choir, lancet: Peasant or pilgrims (unrestored)
Peasants or pilgrims.
Donor Robert de Bérou, chancellor of cathedral.
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Window 134 - clerestory, west end of north choir, lancet: Mary with Infant Christ (unrestored)
Mary with Infant Christ.
Donor coat of arms puts in family of Regnault de Mouçon, bishop of Chartres (d. 1217).
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