P1020558

P1020558

original (4295078051)

Window 062 - Saint Eustace (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right:

†Central Diamond 1: Placidas hunts a stag.
• Row 1: Part of the hunt.
• 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.
• Row 6 (two circles): Negociates for passage on ship and sails to Egypt (2 panels).

† Central Diamond 3: Eustace and children driven from the boat, while boat captain retains his wife [story continues in row 9].

• Row 7: Eustace's two sons meet and recognize each other; Eustace converses with the emperor's messengers and they realize he is Placidas whom they have been sent to find [story continues row 10].
• Row 8: Emperor Trajan sends for Placidas (now Eustace); The messengers lodge with Eustace without recognizing him [story continues in row 11, right].
• Row 9 (two circles): Eustace fords a river; one child is carried off by pink lion, another attacked by wolf who is in his turn attacked by shepherds [story continues in row 8].
• Row 10: Two recruits (his sons) brought to Eustace but he does not recognize them [story continues in row 11, left]; EITHER family celebrates their reunion OR the messengers tell Eustace's friends of his exploits [story continues in Central Diamond 4].

† Central Diamond 4: Eustace, wife, and children re-united [story continues row 12, left].

• Row 11: Eustace's kidnapped wife leaves to find him [story continues in row 10, right]; Eustace's son selected for military service [story continues row 10, left].
• Row 12: Roman emperor thanks his idols for bringing victory to Eustace; Eustace will not worship the idols.
• Row 13: Eustace's execution ordered (also in round panel directly above); servants carry out the emperor's execution order (see also round pan

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 104

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 104

Window 037 - Saint James Major

Bottom to top, left to right (some rows have the story proceed RIGHT to left; marked '!' where this occurs:

• Row 13: Jews are angry at James' preaching; Hermogenes preaches to those who used to follow him.
• Row 14: James preaches Christ's divinity while in prison.
• Row 15: Josias converts and Jewish high priest orders him beaten; Josias, a scribe, leads James with a rope (!)
• Row 16: Herod condemns Josias and James to death; James performs healings while he and Josias are taken away.
• Row 17: James and Josias taken to be executed.
• Row 18: James and Josias are beheaded.
• Row 19: Christ on cloud with candelabra.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Filetus #france #Hermogenes #Herod #Jesus Christ #Josias #Saint James Major #TCS-photo #Win037 #cathedral #date estimate #devils and demons #high priest #magicians #martyrdom #miracles #stained glass #unrestored

IMG 5516

IMG 5516

Window 064 - Noah (restored, detail)

Top to bottom, left to right [See diagram for the proper order of reading.]

• 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....

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Noah #TCS-photo #Win064 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #stained glass

IMG 5143

IMG 5143

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

Top to bottom, left to right, including medallions.

• Row 04: A hermit teaches Anthony; he digs, manual labor as part of the hermit's life.
• Row 05: 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 06: Anthony asks friend to bring him bread in preparation for his hermitage in the desert; Devils come to attack Anthony in the hermitage.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 126

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 126

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).

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 #date estimate #descent from the cross #donors identified #pelican #promised land #stained glass #the Church #the Synagogue #types of Christ #unrestored #whole-windows #widow of Sareptha

P1020561

P1020561

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 #interior #restored #stained glass #types of Christ