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P1110443

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Window 006 - Good Samaritan (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:

• Quadrant 13: God creates man, (breathing into Adam the breath of life?).
• Center 14: Adam in paradise.
• Quadrant 15: God makes woman from rib ('tsela') as Adam sleeps. The appearance of the legs matching both Adam and Eve is a beautiful bit of work, rich with symbolism.
• Quadrant 16: God forbids the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. Note the red serpent already coiled about the trunk.
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• Panel 17: They sit under the tree (a first step toward sin, perhaps?).
• Panel 18: Satan tempts them and they eat. Note the dark, ominous red background which echoes the serpent from Quadrant 16, and contrasts with the refreshing blue of the previous.
• Panel 19: God calls to them, but they hide and make fig-leaf aprons.

• Quadrant 20: Cherubim drives them from the garden and tree of life.
• Quadrant 21: Adam digs while Eve spins with a distaff.
• Center 22: God/Christ judges their sin but also promises redemption. {? makes covenant with them)
• Quadrant 23: Cain takes an axe to Abel's head; the first murder. Abel's name can be made out in text below the panel. Like Abel--and the man in the parable--we have fallen victim to a fallen world, and lie wounded and bleeding.
• Quadrant 24: Christ sits to redeem and judge, surrounded by angels. Reminds us that he is the ultimate figure to whom the parable of the Samaritan points.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abel #Adam #Cain #Chartres #Eve #Fall of Man #france #Garden of Eden #Good Samaritan #TCS-photo #Win006 #cathedral #cherubim #creation of Adam #creation of Eve #donors identified #fig leaf #parable #restored #serpent #stained glass #tree of knowledge of good and evil #types of Christ

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 090

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 090

Window 032 - Saint Paul (unrestored)

Top to bottom, left to right. First 5 rows are modern (1872) except for two panels, marked by an asterisk.

• Row 03: Barnabus brings Paul to meet Peter; Paul is let down in a basket over the walls of Damascus to escape Jews who seek to kill him; Paul and Barnabus (?)
• Row 04: A man strikes Paul (*); Paul blesses crippled man by a door; baptism (copy from older version marked ††).
• Row 05: Paul in stocks in Phillipi; Baptism (copied from Paul's baptismal panel marked †); Paul preaches

These are original, except modern panels marked (**)

• Row 06: [chronology is reversed] Paul is baptized (†); Ananias heals Paul's blindness; Ananias sent by Christ to the house of Judaas where Saul is blind.
• Row 07: Barnabus and others listen to Paul

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Publius #Saint Barnabus #Saint Paul #Saint Peter #Saint Plautilla #TCS-photo #Win032 #cathedral #date estimate #modern-glass #stained glass #unrestored

IMG 5462

IMG 5462

Window 176 - West Rose - Last Judgment (restored, detail)

• Center: Christ enthroned in glory, displaying his wounds. Four beasts and angels surround him.
• First circle: Twelve apostles, with Abraham's bosom at 12 o'clock, and the judgment (weighing of souls) at 6 o'clock. Note the angel to the left and devil to the right.
• Outer circle: Starting from the 12:30 position, and proceeding clockwise (each circle on the right is paired with one on the left). (1, 12) Instruments of the passion; (2, 11) angels blow trumps; (3, 10) the resurrected dead awaiting judgment; (4,5,8,9) resurrection of the dead (naked, having just come from their graves); (6,7) hell (at the bottom of the circle, naturally enough).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abraham #Abraham's bosom #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Win176 #angels #cathedral #Detail #devils and demons #hell #instruments of the passion #last judgment #restoration in progress #restored #resurrection #rose window #stained glass #west side

Chartres North Exterior Slides 107

Chartres North Exterior Slides 107

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

TYMPANUM

• Job, scrapes self with potshard on dunghill while the satan torments him, three friends and wife. God watches from above.

LINTEL

Solomon judges the two women and the baby; servant draws sword to slay child on the far left. Those on the right are admiring Jews (who ought, one suspects, to be admiring the wisdom of Christ whose wisdom and judgment Solomon prefigures.)

JAMB Figures
Left:
• Balaam on his ass;
• Queen of Sheba on Ethiopian slave;
• Solomon.

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.

INNER ARCH
• First archivolt: twelve angels bearing sun, moon, and stars.
• Second archivolt: lives of Sampson on the left, Gideon on the right
• Third archivolt: lives of Esther and Judith (prefiguring Mary) on left and right respectively
• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #job #Solomon #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #judgment #justice #north side #Right