1. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, 13th century.

2. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, “Royal” portals, 1145-55. God in Time, God beyond Time, and God before Time

3. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, central portal, Old Testament Kings and Queens, 1145-55.

4. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, central portal, Old Testament Kings and Queens, right,  1145-55.

5. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, central portal, detail of attached columns under figures on the right, 1145-55.

6. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, central portal, right, detail of heads, 1145-55.

7. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, central portal, detail of attached columns under figures on the left, 1145-55.

8. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, central portal, detail of lower sections of two figures on the left, 1145-55.

9. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, left portal, figures to the left, 1145-55.

10. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, central portal, tympanum showing the Apocalyptic Christ [Revelations 4] surrounded by the four beast which became the Four Symbols of the Evangelists, Matthew/ Man; Mark/Lion; Luke/Bull; John/Eagle, referring to the opening texts of each of the Gospels, 1145-55. God beyond Time.

11. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, central portal tympanum, detail, adoring angels (first row) and Elders of the Apocalypse, [Revelations 5:8] 1145-55.

12. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, left portal, Ascension of Christ (also identified as the Creation), 1145-55. God in Time.

13. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, left portal, Ascension, detail, 1145-55.

14. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, left portal, detail, Signs of the Zodiac [Cancer and Aries], Labors of the Months [harvesting grain and pruning vines] 1145-55.

15. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, right portal, Incarnation of Christ, 1145-55. God before Time

16. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, right portal, tympanum, detail, Throne of Wisdom, 1145-55.

17. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, right portal, the Liberal Arts [Theory: Grammar, Dialectic and Rhetoric and Subjects: Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music] in the archivolts: Music above Classical scholar Pythagoras and Grammar above Classical scholar Priscian or Donatus, 1145-55.

18. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, right portal, the Liberal Arts in the archivolts, Dialectic above Aristotle, also Gemini, a sign of the Zodiac, 1145-55.

19. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, right portal, frieze, Supper at Emmaus, 1145-55.

20. Chartres Cathedral, west facade, left portal, Massacre of the Innocents, 1145-55.