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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.)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #north side #restored #Right

Chartres North Exterior Slides 119

Chartres North Exterior Slides 119

Chartres, north side, right portal.

JAMB Figures
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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Apocrypha #Chartres #france #Jesus ben Sirach #Joseph son of Jacob #Judith #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #north side #Right

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IMG 5226

Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Second archivolt: life of Gideon

† Gideon offers sacrifice;

Third archivolt: life of Judith (prefiguring Mary)

† Covers head and prays;

• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel (continued from left half of arch).

† Raphael the angel binds Asmodeus (who had been slaying Sarah's husbands);

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #north side #restored #Right

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Chartres, north side, center portal.

JAMB FIGURES

Left:

• Moses - with brazen serpent on the pole, symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Golden calf beneath.
• Samuel - sacrifices a lamb.
• King David - carries instruments of the Passion, which his Psalm 22 foretold. Beneath lion of Judah.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #King David #Moses #Passion #Samuel #TCS-photo #brazen serpent #cathedral #Center #exterior #golden calf #lion of Judah #north side #restored #sculpture