Figure I.6: Scenes from the Life of Saint Mary, the central star composition in the early thirteenth-century window in the south choir aisle of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Chartres (window 28b). Reading from the bottom and left: Joachim and Anne delivering Mary to a school teacher with a birch; the education of Mary, her betrothal and then (next register) marriage to Joseph, the annunciation, visitation, and (top left) nativity, announcement to the shepherds, and candlemas. (Photo: Deremble). |