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Window 111 - clerestory, south, lancet: Saint Paul

Donor: the curriers, leather finishers stretching twisting leather

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Paul #TCS-photo #Win111 #cathedral #clerestory #donors identified #lancet #restored #stained glass

Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored, detail)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).

• 1-5: Apothicaries and haberdashers as donors. (3): Selling belt;

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored #stained glass

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #exterior #north tower #restoration in progress #south side #south tower

Window 001 - Jesse Tree

Bottom to top: Jesse, David, King (Solomon?), King, King, Mary, Jesus surrounded by seven doves (gifts of the Spirit). Prophets who testified of Christ's coming border the window.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #12th century #Chartres #france #Jesse Tree #Jesus Christ #TCS-photo #Win001 #cathedral #date estimate #prophets #stained glass #whole-windows

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #stained glass #unrestored #untagged

Window 007 - Death and Assumption of Mary (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right.

• Medallion 4: Mary's funeral (note the coffin held up at the top).
• Medallion 5 (small): Angels with censers
• Medallion 6: Mary placed in the tomb surrounded by apostles.
• Medallion 7 (small): Mary's bodily assumption to heaven, flanked by two angels.
• Medallion 8: Jesus crowns Mary as Queen of Heaven.
• Medallion 9 (small): Angels bear the crown.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Assumption of Mary #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Mary #Queen of Heaven #TCS-photo #Win007 #angels #apostles #burial of Mary #cathedral #censers #date estimate #death of Mary #donors identified #stained glass

Chartres, west side, left door, archivolt.

• First archivolt (inner): April with tree blossoming, Aries, May with falconer and horse, Taurus.

• Second archivolt (outer): July with wheat cutting, Cancer, August with wheat threshing, Leo

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Window 037 - Saint James Major

Bottom to top, left to right (some rows have the story proceed RIGHT to left; marked '!' where this occurs:

• Row 04: James and Filetus meet, and the saint converts him.
• Row 05: Filetus reports his conversion to Hermogenes; Hermogenes binds his apprentence with magic.
• Row 06: James sends his cloak to free Filetus from the spell; the demon thus driven out weeps as he responds to the saint's power.
• Row 07: Hermogenes summons two demons to capture James
• Row 08: James overpower Hermogenes' control, and commands the demons to bring Hermogenes to James (2 panels).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Filetus #france #Hermogenes #Herod #Josias #Saint James Major #TCS-photo #Win037 #cathedral #devils and demons #high priest #magicians #martyrdom #miracles #restored #stained glass

Chartres, south side, center, archivolt

Last judgment. Angel

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

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:

† Crowned head
† Tobi and Tobias prepare feast. They are told of a Jew's death;

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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