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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #Left #night #restored #Right #rose window #south side

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 #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #west side

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #Left #night #restored #Right #rose window #west side

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, left portal, left side

JAMB FIGURES

• Isaiah (prophet of Christ's coming, now headless), and then Annunciation (Gabriel treading on devil; Mary treading on serpent).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Annunciation #Chartres #france #Gabriel #Isaiah #Jamb figures #Mary #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #Left #north side

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #Detail #exterior #last judgment #new imports #restored #resurrection #sculpture #south side #stone reliefs #the damned

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #exterior #restoration in progress #south side #unrestored

Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum

• At top: presentation at the temple
• Lintel: the Nativity story. (a) At the far left the Annunciation by the angel; (b) next Mary and Elizabeth meeting; (c) then the nativity: Joseph stands to the left, Mary lies on the altar-like bed, with the Infant Jesus on top.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #lintel #Right #tympanum #west side

Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Second archivolt: Prophets
• Third archivolt: Jesse Tree
• Fourth archivolt: Jesse Tree continues
• Fifth archivolt: Prophets

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesse Tree #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #date estimate #Detail #exterior #north side