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Resurrection of the damned at the Last Judgment
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Chartres, north side, center portal
JAMB FIGURES
Left:
• Elisha (Far left) - Shumanite woman beneath.
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Jamb Figures (L to R) from right side of center portal
• 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).
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Chartres, north side, night illumination
Chartres, west side, night illuminations.
Chartres, north side, night illumination
Zodiac / Labours of the Months
Chartres, west side, left door, archivolt.
• First archivolt (inner): Aries, May with falconer and horse, Taurus.
• Second archivolt (outer): Cancer, August with wheat threshing, Leo.
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