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Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

Left:

• Melchizedek - wearing crown, with bread and wine (which he gave Abraham; prefigures the Eucharist). Lamb beneath.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Chartres, north side, center portal.

JAMB FIGURES, detail

Left:

• Base of Samuel

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #Detail #exterior #restored #resurrection #sculpture #south side #the damned

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

Chartres, north side, center portal

Pillar base, David slays Golliath

original (4295137973)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Goliath #King David #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture #stone reliefs

Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.

Right, detail:

• Joseph who was sold into Egypt, standing on Potipher's wife to whom the devil whispers.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored #sculpture

Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

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

original (4295137967)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Elijah #Elisha #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture #stone reliefs

Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

• Center Figure: Saint Anne with Mary, Joachim with flocks underneath.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Chartres, north side, right portal.

OUTER GABLE
Saint Modesta, daughter of Roman governor Quirinus, an early martyr of Chartres.

duplicate (X03X5s9qQK+zSXL6%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%qYItA)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored #sculpture

Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

Right:
• Isaiah - hold flowering stem, the "rod out of Jesse." Jessee beneath.
• Jeremiah - with Greek cross

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Greek cross #Isaiah #Jamb figures #Jeremiah #Rod of Jesse #Simeon #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture