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Chartres, north side, left portal

TYMPANUM
• Adoration of the Magi and then warned not to return to Herod.

LINTEL:
• Left: Nativity
• Right: Angel appears to shepherds.

ARCH
• First archivolt: ten angels, lowest two on dragons, the rest on clouds

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Adoration of the Magi #Chartres #france #Herod #Nativity #TCS-photo #angels #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #Left #lintel #north side #tympanum

Chartres, west side, left portal, archivolt (bottom to top description)

• First archivolt: Aquarius (mostly broken).

• Second archivolt: Scorpio.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #calendar of months #cathedral #Detail #Left #unrestored #west side #zodiac

Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Third archivolt: life of Esther

Left:
† Ahasuerus king of Persia;
† Ahasuerus weds Esther;

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Chartres, south side, center, archivolt

Last judgment. Angels

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #angels #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #Detail #last judgment #south side #unrestored

Window 086 - West clerestory, south trancept: Peter (restored)
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Window 087 - West clerestory, south trancept: Paul (restored)
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Win088, donors identified, clerestory, Jean de Corville

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jean de Corville #Saint Paul #Saint Peter #TCS-photo #Win086 #Win087 #Win088 #cathedral #clerestory #donors identified #keys #restored #stained glass

† Window 095 - South rose: Christ in glory, after Revelation of St. John

Surrounded by the four beasts and 24 elders of the apocalypse. Angels and elders hold musical instruments, censers, and vials of perfume. Note the coat of arms (blue and yellow checkerboard) of the donors, Pierre Mauclerc of Dreux-Brittany.

• Saint Mark - winged lion

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #24 Elders of the Apocalypse #4 Beasts of the Apocalypse #4 evangelists #Chartres #Christ in Glory #Dreux #france #Jesus Christ #Revelation #Saint Mark #TCS-photo #Win095 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #rose window #south side #stained glass

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

• Window 145A - North side, central lancet: Saint Anne holding Infant Mary. Beneath this are the arms of France.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Infant Mary #Mary #Saint Anne #TCS-photo #Win145A #cathedral #donors identified #lancet window #north side #restored #stained glass

Chartres, south side, right--"Bay of the Confessors"

TYMPANUM and LINTEL

Left side

• Martin lies asleep with his servant. He sees Christ wearing half of the cloak (the other half which Martin kept can be seen on the wall above his sleeping form).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Martin #TCS-photo #cathedral #Right #south side #unrestored

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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored #sculpture

Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel.

Left:

† Tobit becomes blind;

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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