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Chartres West Exterior Slides 093

Chartres West Exterior Slides 093

Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

Left:
• Elisha (Far left) - Shumanite woman beneath.
• Melchizedek - wearing crown, with bread and wine (which he gave Abraham; prefigures the Eucharist). Lamb beneath.
• Abraham - looks up at angel halting the sacrifice of Isaac. Ram beneath.
• Moses - with brazen serpent on the pole, symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Golden calf beneath.
• Samuel - sacrifices a lamb.
• King David - carries instruments of the Passion, which his Psalm 22 foretold. Beneath lion of Judah.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Tags: #Abraham #Chartres #france #Isaac #Jamb figures #King David #Melchizedek #Moses #Samuel #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #date estimate #exterior #north side

Elders & Angels from Revelation

Elders & Angels from Revelation

Chartres west side, central portal, tympanum

• In the lower right corner, one sees Elijah

• The first archivolt: twelve angels.
• The second and third archivolts: twenty-four elders of the apocalypse (see Revelation 4:4).

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Tags: #24 Elders of the Apocalypse #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #Detail #exterior #west side

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Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]

Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.

(15) Adam and Eve hide
(16) God appears to judge Adam and Eve's sin
(17) Driven from Eden; note angel with flaming sword;

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #center portal #creation #fall #north side #restored

Chartres South Exterior Slides 050

Chartres South Exterior Slides 050

Chartres, south side, left.

TYMPANUM

Christ crowned between two angels. (He is the supreme or ultimate martyr.)

LINTEL

Stephen is led out of the city to be stoned, and is then stone. (Story begins on left archivolt and finisheds on right, neither shown here.)

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Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Stephen #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #Left #lintel #martyrs #south side #unrestored

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Window 038 - Charlemagne (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Furriers as donors.

[Conquest of Jerusalem]

• Circle 05: Charlemagne gives relics to the Church.

[Spanish Crusades - from Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin]

• Row 06: Charlemagne asks learned about Milky Way; Saint James the Major appears to Charlemagne in a dream, tells him to follow the Milky Way to Spain.
• Diamond 07: Army leaves on the Spanish Crusade, Archbishop Turpin of Rheims attends with Charlemagne.
• Row 08: Charlemagne prays prior to assaulting Pampulauna (Pamplona); Charlemagne takes the city from Moors.
• Circle 09: Charlemagne builds a church to Saint James, who instigated the crusade.

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Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Baudouin #Charlemagne #Chartres #Ferracutus #Ferragus #france #King Marsile #Pamplona #Pampulauna #Roland #Saint James Major #Spanish Crusade #TCS-photo #Win038 #astronomy #cathedral #donors identified #horn #martyrs #miracles #oliphant #restored #stained glass