North Lancets detail

North Lancets detail

†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).

• Window 145E - North side, far right lancet: Aaron above Pharoah, covered by the Red Sea (true priesthood and power over the false).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Aaron #Chartres #france #Jeroboam #Pharoah #Red Sea #Solomon #TCS-photo #Win145D #Win145E #cathedral #donors identified #golden calf #lancet window #north side #restored #stained glass #whole-windows

P1020596

P1020596

original (4295078099)

Window 016 - The Virgin Mary

Top to bottom, left to right:

• Row 04: Mary is schooled (note the whipping stick if needed; 2 panels); Mary betrothed to Saint Joseph.
• Row 05: Mary and Joseph married; the Annunciation; The Visitation.
• Row 06: Nativity; Annunciation to Shepherds; Presentaton at the Temple.
• Row 07: Herod consults experts; Adoration of the Magi (2 panels).
• Row 08: Flight into Egypt; Massacre of the Innocents; Herod orders the Massacre.
• Row 09: Jesus Christ with worshipers.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Adoration of the Magi #Annunciation #Chartres #Elizabeth #france #Jesus Christ #Mary #Massacre of the Innocents #Saint Anne #Saint Joachim #TCS-photo #Tibault VI #Visitation #Win016 #birth of Mary #cathedral #donors identified #flight into Egypt #interior #restored #shepherds #stained glass

Europe 2 1998 Slides 11

Europe 2 1998 Slides 11

Window 117 - 3rd right, clerestory, apse: John the Baptist (unrestored)

Bankers as donors. Annunciation to Zacharias, John and "Behold the Lamb of God," Baptism of Christ

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Gabriel #Jesus Christ #John the Baptist #TCS-photo #Win117 #Zacharias #baptism of Christ #cathedral #date estimate #donors identified #lamb of God #stained glass #unrestored #whole-windows

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 091

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 091

Window 032 - Saint Paul (unrestored)

Top to bottom, left to right.

These are original, except modern panels marked (**)

• Row 07: Barnabus and others listen to Paul; Paul and Barnabus; Fall of Patroclus (?) - According to the Golden Legend, Patroclus fell from a ladder placed against a window of Nero´s palace to permit him to hear Paul preach.
• Row 08: Patroclus' corpse brought to Paul; Patroclus raised from the dead; baptism (††) [This story is much like that of Eutychus if Troas, who fell asleep during a long discourse of Paul's and was killed, but raised--see Acts 20:7-12. The reason for choosing of Patroclus over Eutychus in the interpretation is not clear to me. The figure of "Peter" seems to match in all, so perhaps this is why.]
• Row 09: Paul and Peter before Nero; Simon Magus' dogs repelled by the consecrated host; Paul and Peter pray to raise man from the dead (**)
• Row 10: Simon Magus attacked by his dogs (**); Simon Magus tries to fly, and plumets down; Nero watches Simon Magus' decease
• Row 11: Paul taken to be executed - Saint Plautilla (Roman widow baptized by Peter) gives

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Nero #Patroclus #Publius #Saint Barnabus #Saint Paul #Saint Peter #Saint Plautilla #Simon Magus #TCS-photo #Win032 #cathedral #date estimate #modern-glass #stained glass #unrestored #veil of Plautilla

P1020589

P1020589

original (4295078091)

Window 035 - Saint Simon and Saint Jude

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 05: Baradach's priest asks idol how the war will turn out; the apostles predict the war will be prevented the next day.
• Row 06: Baradach arrests the apostles, likely at the instigation of Persian soothsayers (both panels).
• Row 07: Peace envoys from India arrive (both panels).
• Row 08: The apostles teach and convert many (both panels).
• Row 09: Persian magicians create serpents as evidence of their miracle-working--Simon and Jude pray that they will be bitten but not unto death.
• Row 10: Chariots of the pagan moon and sun (which the apostles would not worship)
• Row 11: Two angels (modern) replaced an older scene showing the saints' martyrdom.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Baradach #Chartres #france #Hindu #India #Saint Jude #Saint Simon #TCS-photo #Win035 #cathedral #donors identified #idols #interior #magicians #martyrs #mercy #miracles #modern-glass #restored #soothsayers #stained glass

P1020622

P1020622

Window 006 - Good Samaritan

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

• Quadrant 20: Cherubim drives them from the garden and tree of life.
• Quadrant 21: Adam digs while Eve spins with a distaff.
• Center 22: God/Christ judges their sin but also promises redemption. {? makes covenant with them)
• Quadrant 23: Cain takes an axe to Abel's head; the first murder. Abel's name can be made out in text below the panel. Like Abel--and the man in the parable--we have fallen victim to a fallen world, and lie wounded and bleeding.
• Quadrant 24: Christ sits to redeem and judge, surrounded by angels. Reminds us that he is the ultimate figure to whom the parable of the Samaritan points.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

IMG 5465

IMG 5465

Window 002 - Life of Christ

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Annunciation of Gabriel to Mary; Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth; Birth of Christ in stable. Note the altar-like manger.
• Row 02: Angels to shepherds; Herod; Wise men seeking Christ.
• Row 03: Wise men presenting gifts; Christ with Mary; Wise men returning home (they are warned by the angel in the panel directly above them).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #12th century #Annunciation #Chartres #Elizabeth #france #Gabriel #Herod #Mary #Nativity #TCS-photo #Visitation #Win002 #angels #cathedral #interior #lancet window #restored #shepherds #stained glass #west side #wise men