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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 #Jamb figures #King David #Queen of Sheba #Solomon #TCS-photo #Unknown figures #cathedral #exterior #west side

Chartres, north side, center portal.

JAMB FIGURES

Left:

• Moses - with brazen serpent on the pole, symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Golden calf beneath.
• Samuel - sacrifices a lamb.
• King David - carries instruments of the Passion, which his Psalm 22 foretold. Beneath lion of Judah.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #King David #Moses #Passion #Samuel #TCS-photo #brazen serpent #cathedral #Center #exterior #golden calf #lion of Judah #north side #restored #sculpture

Chartres west side, right portal, right hand side, tympanum: nfant Jesus enthroned on Mary's lap flanked by two angels

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Infant Jesus #Mary #TCS-photo #angels #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #tympanum #west side

Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum

• First archivolt: Pisces (fish), Gemeni (twins), then 6 angels (not all seen)
• Second archivolt: Aristotle, Dialectic, Cicero, Rhetoric, Euclid, Geometry.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Chartres, north side, center portal

Pillar base, David slays Golliath

original (4295137973)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Goliath #King David #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture #stone reliefs

Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.

TYMPANUM: Detail

• Job, scrapes self with potshard on dunghill while the satan torments him, three friends and wife. God watches from above.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #job #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #north side #Right

Chartres, south side, left

JAMB Figures (L to R) from right side of left portal

• Saint Vincent [deacon dress]
• Saint Denis [bishop of Paris]
• Saint Piat [deacon dress]
• Saint George [13th century, from period of porch addition] Beneath him he is martyred by being broken on the wheel.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #Saint Denis #Saint George #Saint Piat #Saint Vincent #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #Left #martyrs #south side #unrestored

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Chartres, south side, right--"Bay of the Confessors"

ARCHIVOLT - angels and kings

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #Right #south side #unrestored

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 #exterior #Right #stone reliefs #west side