STC_9878

STC_9878

Window 008 - Vendome Chapel (15th century)

15th century flamboyant gothic.

• Upper rows: Coronation of the Virgin, flanked by John the Baptist on the left, Saint John the Divine on the right.
• Upper: Crucifixion and Last Judgment.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #15th century #Chartres #Coronation of the Virgin #Crucifixion #france #Jesus Christ #John the Baptist #Louis de Bourbon #Saint John the Divine #TCS-photo #Vendome #Win008 #cathedral #donors identified #last judgment #new imports #restored #stained glass

IMG_9869

IMG_9869

Window 006 - Good Samaritan (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:
• Panels 1,2,3: Cobblers, the donors of the window
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• Quadrant 4: Jesus tells a parable.
• Quadrant 5: Man leaves Jerusalem for Jericho
• Center 6, quadrant 7: Thieves leap out to attack and rob him
• Quadrant 8: Priest and levite pass by without helping.
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• Panels 9,10,11: Samaritan binds his wounds, places the man on his donkey, and takes him to a waiting inn-keeper.
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• 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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• Panel 17: They sit under the tree (a first step toward sin, perhaps?).
• Panel 18: Satan tempts them and they eat. Note the dark, ominous red background which echoes the serpent from Quadrant 16, and contrasts with the refreshing blue of the previous.
• Panel 19: God calls to them, but they hide and make fig-leaf aprons.

• Quadrant 20: Cherubim drives them from the garden and tree of life.
• Quadrant 21: Adam digs while Eve spins with a distaff.
• Center 22: God/Christ judges their sin but also promises redemption. {? makes covenant with them)
• Quadrant 23: Cain takes an axe to Abel's head; the first murder. Abel's name can be made out in text below the panel. Like Abel--and the man in the parable--we have fallen victim to a fallen world, and lie wounded and bleeding.
• Quadrant 24: Christ sits to redeem and judge, surrounded by angels. Reminds us that he is the ultimate figure to whom the parable of the Samaritan points.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abel #Adam #Cain #Chartres #Eve #Fall of Man #france #Garden of Eden #Good Samaritan #TCS-photo #Win006 #cathedral #cherubim #creation of Adam #creation of Eve #donors identified #fig leaf #focus-issues #new imports #parable #restored #serpent #stained glass #tree of knowledge of good and evil #types of Christ #whole-windows

IMG_9890

IMG_9890

Window 045 - St Julien the Hospitaller (restored)

• Row 01: Cartwrights and Coopers as donors
• Row 02: Joiners
• Row 03: Julien enters service with nobility.
• Row 04: He waits at table.
• Row 05: He is raised out of servitude.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Saint Julien the Hospitalier #TCS-photo #Win045 #cathedral #charity #Detail #donors identified #new imports #pennance. #pilgrim #restored #stained glass

STA_9871

STA_9871

Window 064 - Noah (restored)

Top to bottom, left to right

• Row 01: Wheelwrights, carpenters, coopers (barrel-makers) as donors. See also donors in the very small squares bottom left and right. Perhaps appropriate given the ark's water-tight construction of wood. The coopers likewise make the barrels that will hold the wine which Noah eventually grows.
• Row 02: Giants, sons and daughters of men (two panels) [see Genesis 6:4, the 'Nephilim'].
• Row 03: Giants, sons and daughters of men; God talks to Noah; Giants, sons and daughters of men.
• Row 04: Noah's three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; Noah's wife and daughters-in-law.
• Row 05: Two people (perhaps walking away from the Ark?); Noah and a son build the ark; Animals (including dogs and sheep) begin to gather two by two.
• Row 06: Animals (horses?) begin to gather two by two; Animals (large cats?) begin to gather two by two.
• Row 07: Animals (including camel and bird) begin to gather two by two; Ark in the water; Drowning of all other animals and people.
• Row 08: Drowning of all other animals and people (two panels).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Ark #Chartres #Flood-Deluge #france #Ham #Japheth #Noah #Shem #TCS-photo #Win064 #animals #cathedral #donors identified #focus-issues #new imports #rainbow #restored #stained glass

Europe 1 1998 Slides 110

Europe 1 1998 Slides 110

Window 008 - Vendome Chapel (15th century)

15th century flamboyant gothic.

• Upper rows: Coronation of the Virgins, flanked by John the Baptist on the left, Saint John the Divine on the right.
• Upper: Crucifixion and Last Judgment.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #15th century #Chartres #Coronation of the Virgin #Crucifixion #france #Jesus Christ #John the Baptist #Louis de Bourbon #Saint John the Divine #TCS-photo #Vendome #Win008 #cathedral #donors identified #last judgment #new imports #restored #stained glass