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Window 014 - Temptation of Christ, Marriage at Cana, Blue Virgin (detail, restored)
• Upper half: Mary with the Infant Christ. The three panels containing Mary and Christ, along with the three lancet windows beneath the western rose, are the sole remaining example of the glass from the cathedral largely destroyed in the fire of 1194, dating to circa AD 1180. The face of Mary is modern; note how she is shaped almost throne-like as Christ sits enthroned upon her. Often called "Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière" (Our Lady of the Beautiful Stained Glass Window). The framing panels and remainder of the window are from the current cathedral--circa 1215 - 1220.
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Window 007 - Death and Assumption of Mary
Bottom to top, left to right.
• Row 1: Cobblers, donors of the window
• Medallion 2: Apostles around Mary's deathbed
• Medallion 3 (small): Jesus receives soul (small child).
• 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.
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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.
(17) Driven from Eden; note angel with flaming sword;
(18) Adam delves; Eve spins while God blesses their work;
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†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored)
• Window 145E - North side, far right lancet: Aaron above Pharoah, covered by the Red Sea (true priesthood and power over the false).
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Chartres, north side, right portal, archivolt
OUTER ARCH
• First archivolt: November knock down acorns for pig, December slaughter pig
• Second archivolt: Scorpio, Saggitarius [centaur or archer]
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Europe 1 1998 Slides 137
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Window 065 - Clerestory, nave, south-west, lancet: Saint Mary of Egypt
Saint Mary of Egypt, meets Zozimus, is buried.
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Window 066 - Clerestory, nave, south-west, lancet: Saint Laumer
Saint Laumer, abbot of Corbion. Lying on his death bed, and visited by Saint Malard.
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Window 067 - Clerestory, name, south-west, small-rose: Abbot, unknown
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