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IMG 5516

IMG 5516

Window 064 - Noah (restored, detail)

Top to bottom, left to right [See diagram for the proper order of reading.]

• 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....

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Noah #TCS-photo #Win064 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #stained glass

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IMG 5143

Window 013 - Story of Saint Anthony of the Desert and Saint Paul the Anchorite (restored)

Top to bottom, left to right, including medallions.

• Row 04: A hermit teaches Anthony; he digs, manual labor as part of the hermit's life.
• Row 05: Devil (green face and feet) tempts Saint Anthony; Anthony before his fire is tempted by the devil in the form of a woman (also in green dress).
• Row 06: Anthony asks friend to bring him bread in preparation for his hermitage in the desert; Devils come to attack Anthony in the hermitage.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Athanasius #Chartres #france #Saint Anthony of the Desert #Saint Paul the Anchorite #TCS-photo #Win013 #cathedral #charity #devils and demons #hermit #miracles #nuns #restored #stained glass

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Window 061 - Joseph, Son of Jacob (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right

• Row 01 (half moons): Bankers, as donors
• Row 02: Joseph's dream, with sun, moon, and stars bowing down to him.
• Row 03: Jacob sends Joseph to his brothers; Brothers plot against Joseph
• Row 04: Brothers put into pit.
• Row 05 (half moons): Sold to Ishmaelite traders as slave; they bring the coat of many colors to Jacob.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Egypt #france #Jacob #Joseph son of Jacob #TCS-photo #Win061 #cathedral #donors identified #dreams #interior #restored #stained glass #types of Christ

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P1110445

Window 006 - Good Samaritan

Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:

• 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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Adam #Chartres #Eve #Fall of Man #france #Garden of Eden #Good Samaritan #TCS-photo #Win006 #cathedral #cherubim #creation of Adam #creation of Eve #donors identified #parable #restored #serpent #stained glass #tree of knowledge of good and evil #types of Christ