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Chartres, south side, right--"Bay of the Confessors"
TYMPANUM and LINTEL
Christ (note the cruciform nimbus behind his head) flanked by two angels (one missing)
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Chartres, south side, center, archivoltLast judgment, demons with the damned.
Chartres, south side, center, archivolt
Last judgment, demons with the damned.
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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 090
Window 032 - Saint Paul (unrestored)
Top to bottom, left to right. First 5 rows are modern (1872) except for two panels, marked by an asterisk.
• Row 03: Barnabus brings Paul to meet Peter; Paul is let down in a basket over the walls of Damascus to escape Jews who seek to kill him; Paul and Barnabus (?)
• Row 04: A man strikes Paul (*); Paul blesses crippled man by a door; baptism (copy from older version marked ††).
• Row 05: Paul in stocks in Phillipi; Baptism (copied from Paul's baptismal panel marked †); Paul preaches
These are original, except modern panels marked (**)
• Row 06: [chronology is reversed] Paul is baptized (†); Ananias heals Paul's blindness; Ananias sent by Christ to the house of Judaas where Saul is blind.
• Row 07: Barnabus and others listen to Paul
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Detail of demon claiming one of the damned.
North tower.
Chartres South Exterior Slides 056
South porch, Left portal, "Bay of the Martyrs"
Jamb Figures (L to R) from left side of left portal
• Saint Maurice [13th century, from period of porch addition]
• Saint Stephen [deacon's dress] (His story is also told in the lintel.)
• Saint Clement [pope's dress]
• Saint Lawrence [deacon's dress]
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IMG 5438
Chartres, south side, right--"Bay of the Confessors"
TYMPANUM and LINTEL [detail]
Right side:
• St. Nicholas money down into the home of a poor family whose father is too ill to provide proper dowries for his three daughters. They had been destined to prostitution.
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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 075
Windows 017 - Zodiac and Labours of the Months (unrestored)
Top to bottom, left to right:
• Row 01: Vinegrowers as donors; Count Thibault VI of Champagne; donated at request of the late "Thomas, Count of Perche," who died in the battle of Lincoln (1217). Note the grateful crowd (see also Window 016)
• Row 02: Bell-ringers and winegrowers as donors.
• Row 03: February (man before fire); Pisces.
• Row 04: March (prune vines); Aries.
• Row 05: May & Gemeni combined.
• Row 06: April (budding plants and vines); Taurus.
• Row 07: July (cutting hay); Cancer.
• Row 08: June (cutting wheat) & Leo combined.
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