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Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Third archivolt: life of Esther

Left:
† Mordecai speaks to Esther's eunuch, presents scroll of degree against the Jews;

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Esther #france #TCS-photo #arch #Archivolt #cathedral #north side #restored #Right

Chartres west side, right portal, right hand side (L - R)

• Apostle
• Unknown OT figure
• Unknown OT figure

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #TCS-photo #Unknown figures #cathedral #exterior #Right #stone reliefs #west side

original (4295078065)

†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored)

• Window 145C - North side, far left lancet: Melchizedek standing over Nebuchadnezzar (true king over the false Babylonian pretender to world-lordship, worshipping idol of his dream).

• Window 145B - North side, near left lancet: King David standing over King Saul (the chosen king over the apostate king rejected by God, who dies via suicide in despair).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Babylon #Chartres #france #King David #Melchizedek #Nuchadnezzar #Saul #TCS-photo #Win145B #Win145C #cathedral #donors identified #interior #lancet window #north side #restored #stained glass

Chartres west side, central portal, right hand side (L - R)

• King David
• Queen of Sheba

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #date estimate #Detail #exterior #west side

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #south side #unrestored

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Window 035 - Saint Simon and Saint Jude

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 07: Peace envoys from India arrive (both panels).
• Row 08: The apostles teach and convert many (both panels).
• Row 09: Persian magicians create serpents as evidence of their miracle-working--Simon and Jude pray that they will be bitten but not unto death.
• Row 10: Chariots of the pagan moon and sun (which the apostles would not worship)
• Row 11: Two angels (modern) replaced an older scene showing the saints' martyrdom.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Baradach #Chartres #france #Hindu #India #Saint Jude #Saint Simon #TCS-photo #Win035 #cathedral #date estimate #donors identified #idols #magicians #martyrs #mercy #miracles #modern-glass #soothsayers #stained glass #unrestored

Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]

Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.

(18) Adam delves; Eve spins while God blesses their work;

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Adam #Chartres #Eve #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #creation #fall #north side #restored

†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored, detail)

• Window 145B - North side, near left lancet: King David standing over King Saul (the chosen king over the apostate king rejected by God, who dies via suicide in despair).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #King David #Saul #TCS-photo #Win145B #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #lancet window #north side #stained glass

Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Third archivolt: life of Judith (prefiguring

Right:

† Judith has cut off head of Holofernes, which servant places in sack.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Holofernes #Judith #TCS-photo #arch #Archivolt #cathedral #north side #restored #Right