{"id":92,"date":"2021-10-05T09:41:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T09:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/?p=92"},"modified":"2021-10-05T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T10:16:28","slug":"jean-fouquet-and-his-seemingly-invisible-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/2021\/10\/05\/jean-fouquet-and-his-seemingly-invisible-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Fouquet and his seemingly invisible past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jean Fouquet 1420-1480 (France)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Tours France, Jean Fouquet was a prominent painter during the 15th<\/sup> century. He was the first painter to introduce Renaissance art to France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of his notable historic art, most of Fouquet\u2019s life\/career is undocumented. Historians have attempted to piece together small parts of information; however, a lot remains uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Self Portrait Medallion by Jean Fouquet<\/em> https:\/\/www.art-prints-on-demand.com\/a\/fouquet-jean\/self-portrait-medallion.html<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

What Type of art did he create?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fouquet was educated in the ways of a manuscript illuminator and the painting of miniatures, he gained a lot of traction for his portrait art. The main clientele he worked for were French court Kings and nobles. Fouquet was the official painter of Charles VII and Louis XI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portrait of Charles VII by Jean Fouquet (c.1445)<\/em> https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Jean_Fouquet_008.jpg<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

What type of art style?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spending time in Italy studying and absorbing an immense amount of knowledge, he travelled back to Tours. After his return, he ended up creating a new art style using his knowledge of both Italian painting and Flemish art. Fouquet\u2019s work is a mix between French International Gothic and Italian Early Renaissance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melun Diptych by Jean Fouquet <\/em>https:\/\/alchetron.com\/Melun-Diptych<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Jean Fouquet 1420-1480 (France) Born in Tours France, Jean Fouquet was a prominent painter during the 15th century. He was the first painter to introduce Renaissance art to France. Regardless of his notable historic art, most of Fouquet\u2019s life\/career is undocumented…. Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13115,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,23,22,25,24,9],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3","tag-21","tag-art-history","tag-france","tag-gothic","tag-renaissance","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/emilymcalpine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}