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Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

Right:
• Isaiah - hold flowering stem, the "rod out of Jesse." Jessee beneath.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Isaiah #Jamb figures #Rod of Jesse #TCS-photo #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #restored #sculpture

Window 059 - Symbolic Window, Typology of the Passion of Christ (restored, detail)

NB: Read TOP to BOTTOM, unlike most windows. Some are modern (marked *).

• Row 10: Elijah raises son of widow of Sareptha; Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh; Elijah meets widow of Sareptha.
• Row 09: King David with pelican feeding young on her own blood.
• Row 08: Abraham takes Isaac to Mount Moriah for sacrifice; Descent from the Cross; Abraham is stopped from sacrificing Isaac.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abraham #Adam #Annointing of Christ's body #Chartres #Christ in Glory #Crucifixion #Elijah #Ephraim #Flagellation #france #Gideon #Isaac #Israelite scouts #Jacob #Jesus Christ #Jonah #King David #Longinus #Manasseh #Moses #Sacrifice of Isaac #Samson #Stephaton #TCS-photo #Win059 #angels #blood of the lamb #blood on doorposts #brass serpent #candelabra #cathedral #crown of thorns #descent from the cross #donors identified #pelican #promised land #restored #stained glass #the Church #the Synagogue #types of Christ #widow of Sareptha

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #stained glass #unrestored #untagged

Chartres, south side, window, detail

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Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored

Window 059 - Symbolic Window, Typology of the Passion of Christ (restored, detail)

NB: Read TOP to BOTTOM, unlike most windows. Some are modern (marked *).

• Row 12: (Bottom row): Blacksmiths as donors.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Win059 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #stained glass

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).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #24 Elders of the Apocalypse #4 evangelists #Chartres #Elijah #Enoch #france #Jesus Christ #Saint John #Saint Luke #Saint Mark #Saint Matthew #TCS-photo #apostles #cathedral #exterior #lintel #tympanum #west side

Chartres, south side, right

TYMPANUM

Christ (note the cruciform nimbus behind his head) flanked by two angels.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Saint Martin #Saint Nicholas #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #Right #south side #tympanum #unrestored

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #restored #stained glass #untagged

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chanelle's Camera #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #interior #untagged

Window 176 - West Rose - Last Judgment (restored, detail)

• Center: Christ enthroned in glory, displaying his wounds. Four beasts and angels surround him.
• First circle: Twelve apostles, with Abraham's bosom at 12 o'clock, and the judgment (weighing of souls) at 6 o'clock. Note the angel to the left and devil to the right.
• Outer circle: Starting from the 12:30 position, and proceeding clockwise (each circle on the right is paired with one on the left). (1, 12) Instruments of the passion; (2, 11) angels blow trumps; (3, 10) the resurrected dead awaiting judgment; (4,5,8,9) resurrection of the dead (naked, having just come from their graves); (6,7) hell (at the bottom of the circle, naturally enough).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abraham #Abraham's bosom #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #Win176 #angels #cathedral #Detail #devils and demons #focus-issues #hell #instruments of the passion #last judgment #restoration in progress #restored #resurrection #rose window #stained glass #west side