P1020571

P1020571

†South side, lancets, left to right: demonstrates the OT as the foundation for the NT witness of Christ

• Window 095C - South side, far left lancet: Saint Luke on Jeremiah, beneath is arms of donor's wife and daughter.

• Window 095B - South side, near left lancet: Saint Matthew on Isaiah, beneath is arms of donor's wife and daughter.

• Window 095A - South side, central lancet: Mary with Infant Christ, beneath is arms of donor Dreux-Brittany.

• Window 095D - South side, near right lancet: Saint John on Ezekiel, beneath is arms of donor Pierre Mauclerc and his son.

• Window 095E - South side, far right lancet: Saint Mark on Daniel, beneath is arms of donor Pierre Mauclerc and his son.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #4 evangelists #Chartres #Count of Dreux #Countess of Dreux #Daniel #Dreux #Ezekiel #france #Infant Christ #Isaiah #Jeremiah #Mary #Saint John #Saint Luke #Saint Mark #Saint Matthew #TCS-photo #Win095A #Win095B #Win095C #Win095D #Win095E #cathedral #donors identified #interior #lancet windows #shoulders of giants #south side #stained glass #whole-windows

St. Stephen’s Window South-east apsidal chapel Chartres Cathedra

St. Stephen's Window South-east apsidal chapel Chartres Cathedra

Window 041 - Saint Stephen
Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 03: Stephen debates (L) with the Jewish doctors (R).
• Row 04: Two false witnesses accuse Stephen before the Sanhedrin; He refutes the charge of blasphemy.
• Row 05: Stephen taken outside the city to be stoned.
• Row 06: A false witness leaves his coat with Saul, the future Saint Paul; Stephen is stoned to death.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Constantinople #france #Gamaliel #Jews #Juliana #Saint Paul #Saint Stephen #Sanhedrin #TCS-photo #Win041 #cathedral #devils and demons #martyr #restored #souls #stained glass

South Rose Chartres

South Rose Chartres

† Window 095 - South rose: Christ in glory, after Revelation of St. John

Surrounded by the four beasts and 24 elders of the apocalypse. Angels and elders hold musical instruments, censers, and vials of perfume. Note the coat of arms (blue and yellow checkerboard) of the donors, Pierre Mauclerc of Dreux-Brittany.

• Saint Luke - winged bull

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #24 Elders of the Apocalypse #4 Beasts of the Apocalypse #4 evangelists #Chartres #Christ in Glory #Dreux #france #Jesus Christ #Revelation #Saint Luke #TCS-photo #Win095 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #rose window #south side #stained glass

Lancet Windows South Rose Chartres

Lancet Windows South Rose Chartres

†South side, lancets, left to right: demonstrates the OT as the foundation for the NT witness of Christ (restored, detail)

• Window 095C - South side, far left lancet: Saint Luke on Jeremiah, beneath is arms of donor's wife and daughter.

• Window 095B - South side, near left lancet: Saint Matthew on Isaiah, beneath is arms of donor's wife and daughter.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #4 evangelists #Chartres #Countess of Dreux #france #Isaiah #Jeremiah #Saint Luke #Saint Matthew #TCS-photo #Win095B #Win095C #cathedral #donors identified #lancet windows #restored #shoulders of giants #south side #stained glass

IMG 5340

IMG 5340

original (4295076105)

Window 006 - Good Samaritan (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:
• Panels 1,2,3: Cobblers, the donors of the window
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• Quadrant 4: Jesus tells a parable.
• Quadrant 5: Man leaves Jerusalem for Jericho
• Center 6, quadrant 7: Thieves leap out to attack and rob him
• Quadrant 8: Priest and levite pass by without helping.
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• Panels 9,10,11: Samaritan binds his wounds, places the man on his donkey, and takes him to a waiting inn-keeper.
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• Quadrant 12: Samaritan cares for wounded man at the inn.
• Quadrant 13: God creates man, (breathing into Adam the breath of life?).
• Center 14: Adam in paradise.
• Quadrant 15: God makes woman from rib ('tsela') as Adam sleeps. The appearance of the legs matching both Adam and Eve is a beautiful bit of work, rich with symbolism.
• Quadrant 16: God forbids the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. Note the red serpent already coiled about the trunk.
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• 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 #Chanelle's Camera #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 #interior #parable #restored #serpent #stained glass #tree of knowledge of good and evil #types of Christ #whole-windows