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Chartres North Exterior Slides 108
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.
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The Miracles of the Virgin Window
Window 009 - Miracles of the Virgin
Bottom to top, left to right.
• Quatrefoil 3: Stone cutters, masons, etc. as part of cathedral building [Modern, 1926]
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Window 009 - Miracles of the Virgin (unrestored)
Bottom to top, left to right.
• Quatrefoil 4: Procession of the Sancta Camisia (relic of Chartres, the "veil of the virgin," held to have been worn during the delivery of Christ) [Modern, 1926]
• Quatrefoil 5: Mary, surrounded by angels, prophets, and two bishops of Chartres: Saint Yves (Ivo of Chartres, c. 1040-23 Dec 1115) and Saint Fulbert (c. between 952 and 970 – 10 April 1028) [Modern, 1926]
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Version 3
Chartres, north side, center portal
JAMB FIGURES
Left:
• Melchizedek - wearing crown, with bread and wine (which he gave Abraham; prefigures the Eucharist). Lamb beneath.
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Chartres South Exterior Slides 007
South side, east end.
Portals (L - R)
• Bay of the Martyrs [not shown]
• Central Bay (Christ)
• Bay of the Confessors
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Chartres, south side, center
JAMB Figures
Right side
• Paul (note the omnipresent baldness) with sword, instrument of his beheading.
• St. John (no beard, young, dressed as priest; has book in left hand and broken palm--symbol of chastity--in the right.) Stands on a man offering cup of serpents, cf miracle he performed.
• St. James the Greater (of Peter, James, and John). Has belt of shells--the "coquilles St. Jacques" [scallops] were his symbol and often worn by pilgrims.
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South side, right portal, right hand side
• St. Avitus, abbot of Micy [added at porch construction].
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Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.
JAMB Figures
Left:
• Balaam on his ass;
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