LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, west side, left door, archivolt.
• First archivolt (inner): April with tree blossoming, Aries, May with falconer and horse, Taurus.
• Second archivolt (outer): July with wheat cutting, Cancer, August with wheat threshing, Leo
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South porth, right portal, right side --"Bay of the Confessors"
Figures L - R
• 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, right portal, capitals:
• Malchus (lost ear to Peter's sword and healed by Jesus).
• Judas' betrayal by a kiss.
• Jesus' entry to Jerusalem seated on the colt.
• Jesus being placed in the tomb.
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Chartres, north side, left portal
TYMPANUM
• Adoration of the Magi and then warned not to return to Herod.
LINTEL:
• Left: Nativity
• Right: Angel appears to shepherds.
JAMB FIGURES
• Left: Isaiah (prophet of Christ's coming), and then Annunciation (Gabriel treading on devil; Mary treading on serpent).
• Right Daniel (another prophet of Christ's coming, outermost) with the Visitation nearer the door (Mary on a burning bush, symbol of the Immaculate Conception and Elizabeth).
INNER ARCH:
• First archivolt: ten angels, lowest two on dragons, the rest on clouds
• Second archivolt: four foolish virgins on left, four foolish on the right
• Third archivolt: bottom on each side contain the other two virgins for a total of ten. It then has the virtues with vices underneath each figure.
• Fourth archivolt: Twelve queens bearing scrolls that at one time bore their names; these are the fruits of the spirit as per Galatians 5:22-23.
OUTER ARCH:
• First archivolt: LEFT -- characteristics of a virtuous woman (Proverbs 31:10-31); RIGHT -- characteristics of woman who has chosen the contemplative life;
• Second archivolt: the Beatitudes
GABLE:
• Bishop blesses between two angels
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Chartres, north side, center
• Pillar bases: LEFT: (a) David as shepherd; (b) Plays harp before Saul;
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South porch.
Portals (L - R)
• Bay of the Martyrs
• Central Bay (Christ)
• Bay of the Confessors
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West facade of Notre Dame de Chartres
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