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The Typological Passion Window in Chartres Cathedral is one of the large stained glass trade windows inside the cathedral. Its focus is the events of the Passion of Jesus. This window was donated by the blacksmith guild.

= Background = Stained-glass trade windows most commonly illustrate stories from the life of Christ, a saint, or some other Biblical narrative. The establishment of trade windows came about during the time of the 13th century and it is believed to be because of the rise of industry. Also included in trade windows are signature panels, which depict the trade of people who contributed to the production of the window. Sometimes the figures in a signature panel are portrayed offering their gifts or trade in service of the Church.

A dominant theme of the Passion Window is the positioning of Old Testament scenes and figures next to images of Christ's Passion to present them as types of Jesus' Passion. Typology (theology) is the method of biblical interpretation by which persons or events in the Old Testament are understood as prophetic symbols of persons or events in the New Testament.

= Window Panels =

Christ's Passion
Panels 05, 12, 17, 19, 22, 23, 26, 27 and 28 (see below for number references) are images of Christ's Passion. The main panels of the window are 5, 12, 19 and 26 (Christ's Entombment, Descent from the Cross, the Crucifixion, and the Carrying of the Cross, respectively). The narrative structure has the chronological order of these four events running from top to bottom. While the main four square panels provide the main focus of Christ's Passion, other semicircle panels throughout the window illustrate extra details from Jesus' Passion.

Old Testament Figures
Panels 04, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21 and 24 of the Passion Window depict scenes from the Old Testament, many of which are juxtaposed around images of Christ's Passion to display them as foreshadowing of Jesus' sufferings.

Signature Panels
Panels 01, 02 and 03 have been referred to as the signature panels of the Passion Window. These three bottom panels of the Typological Passion Window represent the workings of farriers and blacksmiths. Some have held that the guilds depicted in the signature panels contributed to the larger window's creation and so some panels were tributes to their work, while others have disputed this view on the basis that such guilds would not have much disposable income at the time of the window's creation.

Other Symbols
Panels 18 and 20 are images of Ecclesia and Synagoga, which is a recurring pair of images in medieval Christian art.

Layout of the Window Panels
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= Signature Panels = (What the signature panels are; include image gallery for them.)

= See also =


 * Chartres Cathedral
 * Typology (theology)

= References =

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