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IMG 5515

IMG 5515

Window 064 - Noah (restored, detail)

Top to bottom, left to right [See diagram for the proper order of reading.]

• Row 01: Wheelwrights, carpenters, coopers (barrel-makers) as donors. See also donors in the very small squares bottom left and right. Perhaps appropriate given the ark's water-tight construction of wood....

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Noah #TCS-photo #Win064 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #stained glass

P1020648

P1020648

Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.

Right:
• Jesus ben Sirach, standing on the temple whose reconstruction was wrongly attributed to him;
• Judith, standing on dog as symbol of fidelity;
• Joseph who was sold into Egypt, standing on Potipher's wife to whom the devil whispers.

original (4295137955)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored #stone reliefs

IMG 4948 (1)

IMG 4948 (1)

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

• 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 #Win145B #cathedral #donors identified #lancet window #north side #restored

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P1020627

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Window 004 - Saint John the Divine [author of Revelation / the Apocalypse]

Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01 [single]: Flight to Egypt (misplaced; doesn't fit with the rest)
• Rows 02 & 03: Armorers donate the window
• Row 04: Death of Stactacus
• Row 05 & 06: John banished to Patmos; he writes Revelation.
• Row 07: John summoned before Aristomedes
• Rows 08 & 09: John enters Ephesus and raises a woman from the dead; on-lookers are amazed.
• Row 10: John drinks poison and receives no harm.
• Rows 11 & 12: Two young men crush gems; John makes gems whole again.
• Row 13: Jesus appears to John.
• Rows 14 & 15: John changes wood to gold and pebbles into gems. Man gives treasure to money-changer.
• Row 16: John awaits death.
• Rows 17 & 18 & 19: Angels

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Apocalypse #Aristomedes #Chartres #Ephesus #france #Jesus Christ #Revelation #Saint John the Divine #Stactacus #TCS-photo #Win004 #cathedral #donors identified #haigiography #interior #miracles #restored #stained glass #whole-windows