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West facade of Notre Dame de Chartres

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #distance view #exterior #new imports #west side

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #exterior #south side #ville

Chartres west side, left portal, right hand side (L - R)
• Moses

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #Moses #TCS-photo #cathedral #exterior #Left #west side

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

• Apostle
• Unknown OT figure
• Unknown OT figure

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #TCS-photo #Unknown figures #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #Right #west side

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
• Jamb figures - all unknown OT individuals except Moses on the right.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #Moses #TCS-photo #Archivolt #calendar of months #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #Left #lintel #tympanum #west side

Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum

• First archivolt: angels
• Second archivolt: Cicero, Rhetoric

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #liberal arts #Right #west side

Chartres, north side, center portal

Right:

• Simeon - testified of Christ at the Presentation at the Temple, holds the infant Christ.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Infant Jesus #Jamb figures #Simeon #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Chartres, north portal, center portal

original (4295137983)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chanelle Smith Fibke #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture #stone reliefs

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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