LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, north side, left portal
JAMB FIGURES
• Left: Isaiah (prophet of Christ's coming, now headless), and then Annunciation (Gabriel treading on devil; Mary treading on serpent).
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Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:
• Quadrant 12: Samaritan cares for wounded man at the inn.
• 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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RIGHT to LEFT
Window 118 - 2nd right, clerestory, apse: Daniel and Jeremiah
Clothiers as donors, Daniel, Jeremiah, Winged creature from Ezekiel's vision with face of a man.
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Window 119 - 1st right, clerestory, apse: Moses and Isaiah
Bakers as donors, Moses with burning bush, Isaiah, Angel with Censer.
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Window 120 - Center, clerestory, apse: Mary
Bakers as donors, Annunciation, Visitation, Mary as queen
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Window 121 - 1st left, clerestory, apse: Aaron
Geoffery, a hosier, and his wife as donors, Aaron and Angel with Censer.
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Window 122 - 2nd left, clerestory, apse: Aaron
Butchers as donors, Ezekiel, Daniel, cherub
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Chartres, south side, center, archivolt
Angels leading one of the redeemed, recently resurrected. Abraham's bosom.
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Chartres, west side, left door
• First archivolt (inner): March with pruning vines (top), June with mowing hay.
• Second archivolt: Virgo, Sagittarius December with feasting [only heads of man and woman feasting are visible].
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Chartres, north side, center portal
INNER ARCH
• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]
Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.
(8) Garden of Eden.
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Chartres, north side, center portal
INNER ARCH
• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]
(12) & (13) Adam happy in Eden, sleeping, and apart while Eve is tempted
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Window 054 - Saint Germain of Auxerre [pre AD 1236] (restored)
In many places, the left right pairing shows a "cause and effect" relationship. The window is difficult to photograph with the east wall buttresses of the north trancept, and the "Our Lady of the Pillar" adoration with candles et al. in front of it.
• Row 01: Geoffrey Chardonel, canon of Chartres as donor; Saint Germain as student.
• Row 02: Chosen to be bishop and taken from his home against his will [removed in this shot]; Consecrated as bishop.
• Row 03: Tax-collector needs help finding lost money; Germain speaks to a demonically-possessed man.
• Row 04: Germain celebrates mass, and drives out the demon, letting the man confess his theft; The thief repays the money.
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Window 047 - 14th century grisailles, with Saint Lawrence (right, St. Lawrence not visible here)
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Window 048 - 14th century grisailles (left)
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Window 049 - Jesus, angels, apocalyptic beasts (upper occulus).
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