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P1020560

P1020560

original (4295078053)

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.
• Row 06: Sold to Potiphar; Potiphar's wife tempts him
• Row 07: She accuses him to Potiphar.
• Row 08: Potiphar arrests Joseph; Has him thrown into prison.
• Row 09: Pharaoh dreams
• Row 10: Seven fat sheep, seven thin cattle of Pharaoh's dream; Meanwhile, in prison, Joseph interprets dreams of cupbearer and baker.
• Row 11: Joseph interprets dream, made governor; Graineries are filled for lean times.
• Row 12: Egyptians pour grain into Nile.
• Row 13: Jacob sends sons to Egypt looking for food; They travel to Egypt.
• Row 14: Joseph receives his brothres.
• Row 15 (two half moons): Joseph hides cup in Benjamin's bag, and it is discovered.
• Row 16 (two half moons and lower diamond): Brothers return and bring Jacob to Israel (three panels total).
• Row 17: Jacob and sons leave for Egypt; Jacob and Joseph are reunited.
• Row 18: Christ in Glory.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Egypt #france #Jacob #Jesus Christ #Joseph son of Jacob #Potiphar #Potiphar's wife #TCS-photo #Win061 #cathedral #donors identified #dreams #interior #restored #stained glass #types of Christ #whole-windows

IMG 5487

IMG 5487

Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).

• 13: Consecrated as bishop of Myra.

(Side half moons):
• 18-19: Three men welcomed and killed by inn-keeper.

(Upper cloverleaf):
• 23-25: A shyster swears by St. Nicholas he will return gold to a Jewish money-lender; He gives staff to the Jew and claims he has repaid his loan; Shyster and staff crushed by a cart, getting his just deserts.
• 26: Jewish merchant strikes St. Nicholas' statue because the saint did not protect his valuables.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jews #Myra #Saint Nicholas #TCS-photo #Win060 #cathedral #charity #donors identified #miracles #restored #shrine #stained glass

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 062

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 062

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

Top to bottom, left to right, including medallions.

• Row 5: 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 6: Anthony asks friend to bring him bread in preparation for his hermitage in the desert; Devils come to attack Anthony in the hermitage.
• Row 7 (center): This is slightly out of sequence: Anthony's friend brings bread and finds him immobilized by the pain of the scourging given in the next row up.
• Row 8: Demons scourge Anthony with whips; Anthony appears dead (like a corpse, so his friend carries the immobilized saint back to the desert on his back
• Row 9: Anthony visits Paul the Anchorite as a crow feeds them; Anthony studies alone in his cell.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

P1110446

P1110446

Window 006 - Good Samaritan

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

• Panel 17: They sit under the tree (a first step toward sin, perhaps?).
• Panel 18: Satan tempts them and they eat. Note the dark, ominous red background which echoes the serpent from Quadrant 16, and contrasts with the refreshing blue of the previous.
• Panel 19: God calls to them, but they hide and make fig-leaf aprons.

• 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 #donors identified #fig leaf #parable #restored #serpent #stained glass #tree of knowledge of good and evil #types of Christ

P1020568

P1020568

original (4295078059)

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.
• Row 09: King David with pelican feeding young on her own blood.
• Row 08: Abraham takes Isaac to Mount Moriah for sacrifice; Descent from the Cross; Abraham is stopped from sacrificing Isaac.
• Row 07: Jonah near Ninevah (*).
• Row 06: Moses shows brass serpent; Adam collects blood at the foot of the cross (*); Israelites mark their doorposts with blood of the lamb (tau).
• Row 05: The Church (the NT, new faith); Crucifixion with Longinus and Stephaton (*); Synagogue (the OT, old faith).
• Row 04: Gideon sees angel (*).
• Row 03: Christ is mocked and crowned with thorns; Israelite scouts return from promised land with evidence of its richeness; The Scourging of Christ.
• Row 02: Women weep at the Crucifixion; Jesus carries the cross (*); Soldiers preparing for the crucifixion.
• Row 01: Christ (with candelabra) (*).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abraham #Adam #Annointing of Christ's body #Chartres #Christ in Glory #Crucifixion #Elijah #Ephraim #Flagellation #france #Gideon #Isaac #Israelite scouts #Jacob #Jesus Christ #Jonah #King David #Longinus #Manasseh #Moses #Sacrifice of Isaac #Samson #Stephaton #TCS-photo #Win059 #angels #blood of the lamb #blood on doorposts #brass serpent #candelabra #cathedral #crown of thorns #descent from the cross #donors identified #focus-issues #interior #pelican #promised land #restored #stained glass #the Church #the Synagogue #types of Christ #whole-windows #widow of Sareptha

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 092

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 092

Window 033 - Saint Andrew

Bottom to top, left to right. (The first 5 rows are modern as of 1872, marked '*').

• Row 01*: Peter speaks to men; Peter raises the dead (see last panel of row 8).
• Row 02*: A saint is crucified; Jesus speaks to an apostle.
• Row 03*: Two apostles pray while idols fall; Apostle sleeps on ground (see last panel of row 7).
• Row 04*: Apostles speaks to a group; Saint praying is struck with clubs.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Aegeas #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Saint Andrew #Saint John #Saint Peter #TCS-photo #Win033 #angels #cathedral #censers #date estimate #devils and demons #martyr #miracles #stained glass #unrestored

IMG 5098

IMG 5098

Window 030 - Saint Sylvester [Pope, contemporary of Constantine]

Note that there are eight small round medallions. Seven of these show Constantine writing one of the seven laws he gave to the Church. The final medallion (upper right) shows him watching the soul of Sylvester ascend; there is nothing on his scroll (has this finally silenced him? - GLS).

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Center 13: Baptism of Constantine
• Row 14: Sylvester and Constantine prepare foundation for Saint Peter's church in Rome; Sylvester and Constantine return by emperor's chariot.
• Row 15: Constantine watches events of row 16; likewise.
• Row 16: Jewish magician kills bull by whispering to it. Sylvester brings bull back to life.
• Row 17: Sylvester dies, and soul is carried to heaven.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Constantine #france #Saint Paul #Saint Peter #Saint Peter's basilica #Saint Sylvester #TCS-photo #baptism of Constantine #cathedral #magic #miracles #restored #stained glass