{"id":111,"date":"2018-09-24T20:56:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T03:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/?p=111"},"modified":"2018-10-13T23:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T06:03:18","slug":"jean-fouquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/2018\/09\/24\/jean-fouquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Fouquet – Late Gothic and Early Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jean Fouquet (1420-1481) was the leading French artist of the 15th century. In addition to being a master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, he is recognized as the inventor of the portrait miniature. Fouquet’s excellence lay in the rendering of minute detail and clear characterization on a very small scale. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and witness the early Renaissance. In 1447, Fouquet painted a portrait of the Pope Eugene IV. A few years later, he painted a donor\u2019s portrait: that of \u201cEstienne Chevalier, Tr\u00e9sorier de Charles VII de France, avec St St\u00e9phane\u201d. This is considered to be one of his most important works because of Fouquet\u2019s merging of the new ideas of the Italian Renaissance with the refined attention to detail of Flemish art. This combination formed the basis for early 15th century French art, and Fouquet became the founder of a new school of art. During his life, Fouquet worked for the court of Charles VII, treasurer Etienne Chevalier,\u00a0and Chancellor Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins. In his later years he became a court\u00a0painter to Louis XI.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Fouquet<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Jean-Fouquet<\/p>\n

The Story of Art – EH Gombrich<\/p>\n

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The Annunciation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Portrait of Chancellor Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His self-portrait miniature is thought be the earliest sole self-portrait surviving in Western art. That is, if the 1433 portrait by Jan van Eyck \u2018Portrait of a man in a turban\u2019 is in fact not a self-portrait.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of Jean Fouquet’s most important paintings is the Melun Diptych (c. 1450). The right wing shows a pale Virgin ( portrait of Agn\u00e8s Sorel) and Child surrounded by red and blue angels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The second half of the Melun Diptych shows the patron saint protecting the kneeling figure of the donor. St Stephen wears a deacon\u2019s robe, carries a book and on it is a large sharp stone (because he was stoned). The figures are fully rendered and modeled, and light and shade are skillfully used. perspective can be seen in the background. However, the minute textural, precise rendering of fabric, marble, etc is of th3 Northern European style (Jan Van Eyck), as opposed to the bold figures Italian renaissance painting represented.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Jean Fouquet (1420-1481) was the leading French artist of the 15th century. In addition to being a master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, he is recognized as the inventor of the portrait miniature. Fouquet’s excellence lay in the rendering of minute detail and clear characterization on a very small scale. He was the first… Continue reading Jean Fouquet – Late Gothic and Early Renaissance<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-131research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}