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Chartres, north side, buttresses

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Chartres, north side, center portal.

JAMB FIGURES, detail

Left:

• Base of Samuel

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Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Second archivolt: life of Sampson

† Samson slays lion;

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Chartres, west side, right portal, Capitals:

• Last Supper (note Saint John with his head in Jesus' lap).

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Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).

• 1-5: Apothicaries and haberdashers as donors. (3): Selling belt; (4): apothecary; (5) merchant with balance.
• 6-7: Saint Nicholas is birthed and bathed.
• 8: Nicholas refuses to suckle his mother except Mondays and Fridays.

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Window 013 - Story of Saint Anthony of the Desert and Saint Paul the Anchorite (unrestored)

Top to bottom, left to right, including medallions.

• Row 6: Anthony asks friend to bring him bread in preparation for his hermitage in the desert; Devils come to attack Anthony in the hermitage.
• Row 7 (center): This is slightly out of sequence: Anthony's friend brings bread and finds him immobilized by the pain of the scourging given in the next row up.
• Row 8: Demons scourge Anthony with whips; Anthony appears dead (like a corpse, so his friend carries the immobilized saint back to the desert on his back
• Row 9: Anthony visits Paul the Anchorite as a crow feeds them; Anthony studies alone in his cell.
• Row 10: The two saints celebrate mass; Anthony has vision of Paul's soul (small child) being bourne away by angels.
• Row 11: Lions help bury the body of Paul.
• Row 12: Athanasius receives Anthony's cloak in anticipation of the latter's death; his soul is carried to heaven.

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Window 008 - Vendome Chapel (15th century)

15th century flamboyant gothic.

• Upper rows: Coronation of the Virgin, flanked by John the Baptist on the left, Saint John the Divine on the right.
• Upper: Crucifixion and Last Judgment.

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