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Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES, detail

Left:
• Elisha (Far left) - Shumanite woman beneath.

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Chartres, north side, right portal

LINTEL

Detail: Solomon judges the two women and the baby. Here on the right are admiring Jews (who ought, one suspects, to be admiring the wisdom of Christ whose wisdom and judgment Solomon prefigures.)

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Chartres west side, left portal, left hand side

• Detail below middle figure.

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Chartres west side, central portal, left hand side archivolt

First archivolt: angels
Second and third archivolts: 24 Elders of the Apocalypse (Rev 4:4).

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South porth, right portal--"Bay of the Confessors"

Figures L - R

Left side
• St Laumer, monk of Perche [added at porch construction]
• St. Silvester (pope dress)
• St. Ambrose (bishop of Milan), converted St. Augustine and is the first person of whom we have record reading silently to himself, rather than aloud.
• St. Nicholas (bishop of Myra, from when Santa Claus).

Right side
• St. Gregory (pope dress)
• St. Jerome (translated Bible into Latin, the "Vulgate"). Beneath him is a woman with bandaged eyes (the 'blind' synagogue replaced by the Church)
• St. Martin (bishop of Tours). Two dogs lick his bishop's staff, since he reportedly prevented them from eating a hare by miraculous means. Martin gets further attention in the tympanum above the door.
• St. Avitus, abbot of Micy [added at porch construction].

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Chartres, west side, left door

† First - INNER (left around to right)

• Capricorn, January with two faces.

† OUTER (left around to right)

• Libra, October with pruning fruit trees?

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