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Chartres, north side, center portal
JAMB FIGURES
Left:
• Melchizedek - wearing crown, with bread and wine (which he gave Abraham; prefigures the Eucharist). Lamb beneath.
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Chartres left portal, capitals, Adoration of the Magi.
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Chartres, north side, center portal.
JAMB FIGURES, detail
Left:
• Base of Samuel
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West facade of Notre Dame de Chartres
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Chartres, west side, left door
• Tympanum - Christ ascending into heaven. Angels lean down to ask the apostles "Ye men of Gallilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?"
• Archivolts - zodiac alternating with the tasks for each month
† First - INNER
• February with warming self before fire,
• Capricorn
† OUTER
• November with pig slaughter,
• Libra
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