IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE


FRANCE: CHARTRES
NORTH FACADE CENTRAL PORTAL (Virgin Portal)

DETAILS OF THE AND JAMB FIGURES


GENERAL VIEWS
Left Side
Right Side 


 
 
HEADS 
Right Side

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Simeon

John the Baptist and Saint Peter

(Compare John the Baptist with the  Prophet figure
on the right side of the trumeau at Moissac)


 
SOCLES
Left Side

Socle for Abraham - Ram in Thornbush

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Socle for Samuel - Figure (Saul?)

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Right Side

Socle for Isaiah -Sleeping Jesse

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Socle for Jeremiah- Figure (attempting to stone him)

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Socle for Simeon- Figure 

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Miscellaneous Details

Isaac about to be offered by Abraham

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Lamb being offered by Samuel

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Updated by Jane Vadnal, December, 1998