Window 122 - 2nd left, clerestory, apse: Ezekiel and Daniel (unrestored)
Butchers as donors, Ezekiel, Daniel, creature with face of a man from Ezekiel's vision.
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Greg’s family Chartes West Facade
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Chartres, south side, center
JAMB Figures
Apostles (L -> R)
Left side
• Unknown apostle
• Unknown apostle
• Unknown apostle
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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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Chartres, north side, center portal
INNER ARCH
• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]
Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.
(12) & (13) Adam and Even happy in Eden [with God holding a book of law? commandments?]
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Chartres, west side, left portal, archivolt.
• First archivolt (inner): April with tree blossoming, Aries
• Second archivolt (outer): July with wheat cutting, Cancer, August with wheat threshing, Leo.
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Chartres, north side, right portal.
• Statues: OT figures, but identity unknown.
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