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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #calendar of months #cathedral #north side #outer arch #restored #Right #zodiac

Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Third archivolt: life of Esther

Left:
† Ahasuerus speaks with Haman and Mordecai;

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

• Window 145C - North side, far left lancet: Melchizedek standing over Nebuchadnezzar (true king over the false Babylonian pretender to world-lordship, worshipping the idol of his dream).

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†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored)

• Window 145D - North side, near right lancet: Solomon over Jeroboam, who worships golden calf (wise king over the fool who worshipped idols and abandoned the LORD).

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Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]

(5) Creation of sun and moon

Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Tags: #Adam #Chartres #Eve #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #creation #fall #north side #restored

Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

Left:
• Melchizedek - wearing crown, with bread and wine (which he gave Abraham; prefigures the Eucharist). Lamb beneath.
• Abraham - looks up at angel halting the sacrifice of Isaac. Ram beneath.
• 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.

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Tags: #Abraham #Chartres #france #Isaac #Jamb figures #King David #Melchizedek #Moses #Samuel #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #date estimate #exterior #north side

Chartres, north side, right portal, archivolt

OUTER ARCH

• First archivolt: May falcoln on fist, June mower goes to fields with scythe and whetstone
• Second archivolt: Taurus, Gemini

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #calendar of months #cathedral #north side #outer arch #restored #Right #zodiac

Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

Right:

• Peter - dressed as pope, the continuity with Melchizedek, his opposite on the left. He stands on the rock.

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Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #Peter #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture

• Window 145B - North side, near left lancet: King David standing over King Saul (the chosen king over the apostate king rejected by God, who dies via suicide in despair).

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Tags: #Chartres #france #King David #Saul #TCS-photo #Win145B #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #lancet window #north side #restored #stained glass

Chartres, north side, center portal, detail

JAMB FIGURES

• Elijah (Far Right) - on his chariot of fire. Beneath Elisha.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Elijah #Elisha #france #Jamb figures #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #Detail #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture