LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Window 006 - Good Samaritan (restored, detail)
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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Window 008 - Vendome Chapel (15th century)
15th century flamboyant gothic.
• Lower rows: Donor (Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme) and wife on far right. Other members of royal family.
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Window 063 - Saint Lubin / Leobinus (restored)
• Surrounding border: Wine cryers or tavern keepers offering wine for sale.
† Center circles (continued uses of wine):
• Circle 03: Celler master brings wine to be consecrated.
• Circle 04: Highest use of wine -- the Eucharist.
• Circle 05: Christ, with Alpha and Omega.
† Left to right, top to bottom (excluding central circles and border):
• Row 04: Lubin's father? procures an alphabet, or a churchman teaches him to read; Lubin studies while his friends make merry (a nice contrast for a wine cryer's window!).
• Row 05: Lubin enters a monastery; Nileffus advises Lubin to visit other monastaries to expand his learning.
• Row 06: Lubin, Nileffus and others approach another monastery, Saint Avil in Perche; Lubin et al. leave monastery (?) or welcome others to the monastery (?).
• Row 07: Lubin et al. blessed by Saint Avitus [story continues next row up, left side]; Lubin is appointed bishop of Chartres [story continues next row up, right side].
• Row 08: Avitus appoints Lubin cellerer, as he hands over the keys (celler being a nice wine cryer's touch) [story continues row down, right side]; Now-Bishop Lubin leaves on pastoral visit.
• Row 09: Bishop Lubin sprinkles holy water on a house as an exorcism two panels).
• Row 10: Christ with alpha and omega.
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Window 059 - Symbolic Window, Typology of the Passion of Christ (restored)
NB: Read TOP to BOTTOM, unlike most windows. Some are modern (marked *).
• Row 12: (Bottom row): Blacksmiths as donors.
• Row 11: Samson carries gates of Gaza; Christ's body being annointed; David slays lion to protect sheep [some argue for Samson slaying lion, but sheep make me think likely David. On the other hand, the other side panels are often of the same characters, so I suppose a repeat of Sampson would fit that pattern. - GLS]
• Row 10: Elijah raises son of widow of Sareptha; Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh; Elijah meets widow of Sareptha.
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Window 047 - Choir, north side, 14th century grisailles, with Saint Lawrence
Saint Lawrence on the gridiron
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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.
(5) Creation of sun and moon
(6) Creation of birds and fish. To the left, Adam is in God's mind.
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Window 120 - Center, Clerestory, apse: Mary
Mary as Queen with Jesus enthroned
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Window 038 - Charlemagne (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01: Furriers as donors.
[Conquest of Jerusalem]
• Row 04: Charlemagne defeats Saracens; Charlemange refuses all reward save relics he has found.
• Circle 05: Charlemagne gives relics to the Church.
[Spanish Crusades - from Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin]
• Row 06: Charlemagne asks learned about Milky Way; Saint James the Major appears to Charlemagne in a dream, tells him to follow the Milky Way to Spain.
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Chartres, north side, center, night illumination
OT prophets, identity unknown.
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Chartres, north side, left portal
TYMPANUM, detail
• Adoration of the Magi and then warned not to return to Herod. Note star.
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