LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.
LINTEL
Solomon judges the two women and the baby; servant draws sword to slay child on the far left.
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Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.
Right, detail:
• Beneath Joseph who was sold into Egypt: Potipher's wife to whom the devil whispers.
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Chartres west side, right portal, right hand side (L - R)
• Apostle
• Unknown OT figure
• Unknown OT figure
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Chartres, north side, left portal
JAMB FIGURES, detail
• Base of Elizabeth
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Chartres, north side, center portal
JAMB FIGURES
Left:
• Elisha (Far left) - Shumanite woman beneath.
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Chartres west side, central portal, tympanum
• Christ in glory sits in the center, surrounded by symbols of the four gospel authors (evangelists):
• Matthew - winged man
• Mark - winged lion
• Luke - winged ox or bull
• John - eagle
• In the lintel beneath, the twelve apostles are in four groups of three.
• To their immediate left stands Elijah; to their right stands Enoch.
• The first archivolt: twelve angels.
• The second and third archivolts: twenty-four elders of the apocalypse (see Revelation 4:4).
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