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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored #stained glass #untagged

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 #restored #stained glass #types of Christ

Window-062 - Saint Eustace (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right:

†Central Diamond 1: Placidas hunts a stag.

• Row 2: Part of the hunt.
• Row 3 (two circles): Sees crucifix between stag's antlers; Placidus chooses to be baptized a Christian, and receives the name Eustace.
• Row 4: Drapers, as donors.
• Row 5: Furriers, as donors.

† Central Diamond 2: Eustace leaves city with wife and children.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Tags: #Chartres #france #Placidas #Saint Eustace #TCS-photo #Trajan #Win062 #cathedral #donors identified #martyrdom #restored #stained glass

Window 176 - West Rose - Last Judgment, detail
• Center: Christ enthroned in glory, displaying his wounds. Four beasts and angels surround him.
• First circle: Twelve apostles, with Abraham's bosom at 12 o'clock, and the judgment (weighing of souls) at 6 o'clock. Note the angel to the left and devil to the right.
• Outer circle: Starting from the 12:30 position, and proceeding clockwise (each circle on the right is paired with one on the left). (1, 12) Instruments of the passion; (2, 11) angels blow trumps; (3, 10) the resurrected dead awaiting judgment; (4,5,8,9) resurrection of the dead (naked, having just come from their graves); (6,7) hell (at the bottom of the circle, naturally enough) [not shown this photo].

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abraham #Abraham's bosom #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #TCS-photo #Win001 #Win176 #angels #cathedral #date estimate #devils and demons #hell #instruments of the passion #last judgment #resurrection #rose window #stained glass #trumps #west side #whole-windows

Window 058 - Prodigal Son

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Son asks for his portion; Father gives goods; Meanwhile elder son works in the fields.
• Row 02: He leaves home and heads to a far city.
• Row 03: He feasts with two harlots, while a feast is served.
• Row 04: He lies abed and tempted to gamble; tempted by harlots; tempted to dice (on chessboard).
• Row 05: Loses everything except his hose; Begs (2 panels).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Prodigal Son #TCS-photo #Win058 #cathedral #date estimate #parable #stained glass #unrestored

†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored)

• Window 145C - North side, far left lancet: Melchizedek standing over Nebuchadnezzar (true king over the false Babylonian pretender to world-lordship, worshipping idol of his dream).

• Window 145B - North side, near left lancet: King David standing over King Saul (the chosen king over the apostate king rejected by God, who dies via suicide in despair).

• Window 145A - North side, central lancet: Saint Anne holding Infant Mary. Beneath this are the arms of France.

• 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).

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Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Aaron #Babylon #Chartres #france #Infant Mary #Jeroboam #King David #Mary #Melchizedek #Nuchadnezzar #Pharoah #Red Sea #Saint Anne #Saul #Solomon #TCS-photo #Win145A #Win145B #Win145C #Win145D #Win145E #cathedral #donors identified #golden calf #lancet window #north side #restored #stained glass #whole-windows

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #stained glass #unrestored #untagged

†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored)

• Window 145B - North side, near left lancet: King David standing over King Saul (the chosen king over the apostate king rejected by God, who dies via suicide in despair).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #King David #Saul #TCS-photo #Win145B #cathedral #donors identified #lancet window #north side #restored #stained glass

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #focus-issues #interior #restored #stained glass #untagged

Window 010 - Saint Apollinaris, Celestial Hierarchy, Grisaille (14th century) (unrestored).

SAINT APOLLINARIS

• Row 03: Saint Apollinaris heals blind child (son of judge Thaurus?); Meets tribune of Ravenna; Heals tribune's wife.
• Row 04: Baptises tribune and his household; Goes into exile; heals woman possessed with evil spirit.
• Row 05: Apollinaris enters home of Rufus Patricius, Duke of Ravenna; Raises Rufus' daughter from the dead; Provost demands Apollinaris sacrifice to idols.
• Row 06: Angel visits the saint in prison; temple of Jupiter/Zeus collapses due to saints' prayer; Provost and others watch temple's destruction.
• Row 07: Outraged at the temple's loss, pagans beat Apollinaris to death; saint's funeral; Christians of Ravenna mourn his passing.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Apollinaris #TCS-photo #Win010 #cathedral #date estimate #grisailles #idols #martyrs #miracles #stained glass #unrestored