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CIAO ADRIANO
Chartres Cathedral September 2007
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LINK TO IMAGES OGF THE GREAT NORTH ROSE WINDOW AND LANCETS
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There are nearly 200 medieval stained glass windows in Chartres Cathedral. However many photos you take there are always going to be plenty of opportunities still on the table for the next visit! In most cases the narrative windows should be read 'line by line' left to right starting at the bottom.
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Maximum Nikon Grunt gave us this photo of King David sitting on top of a circle of 12 Kings of Judah, assorted minor prophets and angels, all centred on their relative, the Virgin Mary and her Child. And that's just the Rose part of the North Rose - underneath it are 5 huge lancet windows dating from 1230ish.
LINK TO MORE PHOTOS OF THE NORTH ROSE ENSEMBLE
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STORY OF JOSEPH
This is the third of four parts of the Joseph story
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STORY OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN
Early scenes in the story of the Good Samaritan
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This window reads across from Left to Right from the bottom. Charlemagne talks to two bishops, has a dream, meets up with Constantine, fights the Saracen round shields and regains Jerusalem, and is thanked by Constantine with gifts of relics. Mind you, Charlemagne never actually got to Jerusalem per se but hey, it's a story window ......
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STORIES OF CHARLEMAGNE
The two narrative windows telling stories of Charlemagne (above) and Saint James (below) are amongst the most beautiful in a church packed with beautiful windows.
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STORIES OF SAINT JAMES
The frames above and below are at the bottom of the Saint James' window, and are messages from and about the window's donors - the furriers and drapers guild.
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The famous "Blue Virgin" window was one of the few rescued from the old cathedral after the disastrous fire of 1194. Here the early sun and shadows have a dramatic highlighting impact.
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Sagittarius struts his stuff in the Zodiac window, which shoows all the signs of the zodiac and the typical activity at that time of year. In addition to this there are two sculptured Zodiac / Labours of the Month cycles - one in the West Porch, the other in the North Porch.
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