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Chartres west side, central portal, right hand side (L - R)

• Unknown prophet
• King David
• Queen of Sheba
• Solomon

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #west side

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #stained glass #unrestored #untagged

RIGHT to left:

Window 131 - Modern grisailles, glass removed in 1788.
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Window 132 - clerestory, west end of north choir, small-rose: King of Castille.
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Window 133 - clerestory, west end of north choir, lancet: Peasant or pilgrims

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

Mary with Infant Christ.

Donor coat of arms puts in family of Regnault de Mouçon, bishop of Chartres (d. 1217).
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Window 135 - clerestory, west end of north choir, small-rose: Jesus between two candelabra

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Castille #Chartres #Christ #france #Infant Christ #Mary #Regnault de Moucon #Robert de Berou #TCS-photo #Win131 #Win132 #Win133 #Win134 #Win135 #candelabra #cathedral #choir #clerestory #date estimate #donors identified #grisailles #king #lancet #modern-glass #peasants #pilgrims #rose window #small-rose #stained glass #unrestored

Chartres, north side, left portal, left side

JAMB FIGURES

• Isaiah (prophet of Christ's coming, now headless), and then Annunciation (Gabriel treading on devil; Mary treading on serpent).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Annunciation #Chartres #france #Gabriel #Isaiah #Jamb figures #Mary #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #Left #north side

Window 034 - The Apostles (restored, detail)

Some modern frames, marked (*)

• Row 01: Bakers, donors of the window
• Row 02: John 1: 35-40 --> Jesus walking (*); John the Baptist says "behold the Lamb of God"; Andrew and another of John's disciples follow Jesus
• Row 03: John 1: 35-40 --> Jesus shows where dwells [leftmost panel is modern (*)]; Two apostles speak (*)
• Row 04: Two men speak (not apostles since no halos?); Jesus calls Philip to follow him; Two apostles observe (*)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Ascension #Chartres #france #Gethsemane #John the Baptist #Passion #Pentecost #Saint Andrew #Saint James #Saint John #Saint Nathaniel #Saint Peter #Saint Philip #TCS-photo #Win034 #Zebedee #apostles #baptism #calling the apostles #cathedral #date estimate #donors identified #fig tree #modern glass #stained glass #unrestored #washing of feet

RIGHT to left:

Window 131 - Modern grisailles, glass removed in 1788.
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Window 132 - clerestory, west end of north choir, small-rose: King of Castille.
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Window 133 - clerestory, west end of north choir, lancet: Peasant or pilgrims

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

Mary with Infant Christ.

Donor coat of arms puts in family of Regnault de Mouçon, bishop of Chartres (d. 1217).
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Window 135 - clerestory, west end of north choir, small-rose: Jesus between two candelabra

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Castille #Chartres #Christ #france #Infant Christ #Mary #Regnault de Moucon #Robert de Berou #TCS-photo #Win131 #Win132 #Win133 #Win134 #Win135 #candelabra #cathedral #choir #clerestory #date estimate #donors identified #grisailles #king #lancet #modern-glass #peasants #pilgrims #rose window #small-rose #stained glass #unrestored

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #interior #untagged

Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum

• At top: presentation at the temple
• Lintel: the Nativity story. (a) At the far left the Annunciation by the angel; (b) next Mary and Elizabeth meeting; (c) then the nativity: Joseph stands to the left, Mary lies on the altar-like bed, with the Infant Jesus on top.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Window 001 - Jesse Tree, detail

David

Prophets who testified of Christ's coming border the window.

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Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #12th century #Chartres #france #Jesse Tree #King David #TCS-photo #Win001 #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #prophets #stained glass

Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Second archivolt: Prophets
• Third archivolt: Jesse Tree
• Fourth archivolt: Jesse Tree continues
• Fifth archivolt: Prophets

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Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesse Tree #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #date estimate #Detail #exterior #north side