Jean Fouquet
Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (1420–1481) was an important French painter of the 15th century,[2] a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance.
Jean Fouquet Media
Left wing of the Melun Diptych depicts Etienne Chevalier with his patron saint St. Stephen. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
Right wing of Melun Diptych; Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, showing Charles VII's mistress Agnès Sorel (c. 1450). Wood, 93 x 85 cm, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Antwerp
Entry of Charles V in Paris on 2 August 1358, Grandes Chroniques de France (1455-1460)
From Grandes Chroniques de France illustrated by Jean Fouquet, 1455-1460 Paris
King David and the Amalekite, as described in Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
Construction of the Temple of Jerusalem
References
- ↑ As opposed to the artist inserting a small portrait of himself into a much larger religious scene. A 1433 painting by Jan van Eyck (Portrait of a Man) is widely believed to be a self-portrait.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica