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IMG 5086

IMG 5086

Window 038 - Charlemagne

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Furriers as donors.

[Conquest of Jerusalem]

• Row 02: Roman Emperor Constantine sends messenger to Charlemagne; the Emperor has had a dream of Charlemagne conquering Jerusalem.
• Diamond 03: Charlemagne, victorious, is greeted by Constantine.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Charlemagne #Chartres #Constantine #Constantine's Conquest of Jerusalem #france #TCS-photo #Win038 #cathedral #Detail #relics #restored #stained glass

IMG_9890

IMG_9890

Window 045 - St Julien the Hospitaller (restored)

• Row 01: Cartwrights and Coopers as donors
• Row 02: Joiners
• Row 03: Julien enters service with nobility.
• Row 04: He waits at table.
• Row 05: He is raised out of servitude.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Saint Julien the Hospitalier #TCS-photo #Win045 #cathedral #charity #Detail #donors identified #new imports #pennance. #pilgrim #restored #stained glass

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 046

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 046

Window 009 - Miracles of the Virgin (unrestored)

Bottom to top, left to right.

• Quatrefoil 4: Procession of the Sancta Camisia (relic of Chartres, the "veil of the virgin," held to have been worn during the delivery of Christ) [Modern, 1926]

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Mary #Saint Fulbert #Saint Yves [Ivo] #Sancta Camisia #TCS-photo #Win009 #cathedral #cathedral building #date estimate #donors identified #miracles #modern-glass #relics #stained glass #unrestored #veil of the virgin

STA_9871

STA_9871

Window 064 - Noah (restored)

Top to bottom, left to right

• Row 01: Wheelwrights, carpenters, coopers (barrel-makers) as donors. See also donors in the very small squares bottom left and right. Perhaps appropriate given the ark's water-tight construction of wood. The coopers likewise make the barrels that will hold the wine which Noah eventually grows.
• Row 02: Giants, sons and daughters of men (two panels) [see Genesis 6:4, the 'Nephilim'].
• Row 03: Giants, sons and daughters of men; God talks to Noah; Giants, sons and daughters of men.
• Row 04: Noah's three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; Noah's wife and daughters-in-law.
• Row 05: Two people (perhaps walking away from the Ark?); Noah and a son build the ark; Animals (including dogs and sheep) begin to gather two by two.
• Row 06: Animals (horses?) begin to gather two by two; Animals (large cats?) begin to gather two by two.
• Row 07: Animals (including camel and bird) begin to gather two by two; Ark in the water; Drowning of all other animals and people.
• Row 08: Drowning of all other animals and people (two panels).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Ark #Chartres #Flood-Deluge #france #Ham #Japheth #Noah #Shem #TCS-photo #Win064 #animals #cathedral #donors identified #focus-issues #new imports #rainbow #restored #stained glass

South Choir Clerestory Window Chartres

South Choir Clerestory Window Chartres

Window 106 - clerestory, west end of south choir, lancet: Adoration of the magi (restored, detail)

All borders in the choir are modern.

Donor, Bouchard de Marty

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Adoration of the Magic #Bouchard de Marty #Chartres #france #Saint James Major #Saint John the Evangelist #TCS-photo #Win106 #cathedral #choir #donors identified #modern-glass #restored #stained glass