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Chartres, south side, center, archivoltLast judgment, demons with the damned.

Chartres, south side, center, archivoltLast judgment, demons with the damned.

Chartres, south side, center, archivolt

Last judgment, demons with the damned.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #damned #Detail #devils and demons #hell #last judgment #miser #south side #unrestored

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IMG 5086

Window 038 - Charlemagne

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Furriers as donors.

[Conquest of Jerusalem]

• Row 02: Roman Emperor Constantine sends messenger to Charlemagne; the Emperor has had a dream of Charlemagne conquering Jerusalem.
• Diamond 03: Charlemagne, victorious, is greeted by Constantine.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Charlemagne #Chartres #Constantine #Constantine's Conquest of Jerusalem #france #TCS-photo #Win038 #cathedral #Detail #relics #restored #stained glass

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IMG_9890

Window 045 - St Julien the Hospitaller (restored)

• Row 01: Cartwrights and Coopers as donors
• Row 02: Joiners
• Row 03: Julien enters service with nobility.
• Row 04: He waits at table.
• Row 05: He is raised out of servitude.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Saint Julien the Hospitalier #TCS-photo #Win045 #cathedral #charity #Detail #donors identified #new imports #pennance. #pilgrim #restored #stained glass

Trivium/Quadrivium The Liberal Arts

Trivium/Quadrivium The Liberal Arts

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

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 046

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 046

Window 009 - Miracles of the Virgin (unrestored)

Bottom to top, left to right.

• Quatrefoil 4: Procession of the Sancta Camisia (relic of Chartres, the "veil of the virgin," held to have been worn during the delivery of Christ) [Modern, 1926]

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Mary #Saint Fulbert #Saint Yves [Ivo] #Sancta Camisia #TCS-photo #Win009 #cathedral #cathedral building #date estimate #donors identified #miracles #modern-glass #relics #stained glass #unrestored #veil of the virgin