Painting #C16 - The Melun Diptych

The Melun Diptych / 雙聯祭畫

- Jean Fouquet (1425–1480, French) c.1452

- oil on 2 wooden panels (each 93 x 85 cm, originally hinged at the center)

- (originally) Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame (Melun)

[LEFT] Etienne Chevalier
with his patron saint St. Stephen
- Staatliche Museen (Berlin)

[RIGHT] The Virgin and Christ child
surrounded by cherubs
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Antwerp)

Perhaps the 17-year-old painter did not really know the breasts' shapes and locations.

A self-portrait medallion
is also associated with the two panels
- copper, enamel, gold (6 cm dia.)
- Louvre (Paris)

On the medallion is the name JOHES FOVQVET, where Johes is an abbreviated form of Johannes (a Latin form of John), and Fovqvet meant Fouquet (before letter u was invented to separate from letter v).

Portrait inspired by the Virgin in the Melun Diptych above

Agnès Sorel, favorite of King Charles VII of France
- anonymous
- oil on panel (130 x 97 cm) 16th century
- private collection

 

Tomb of Angels Sorel

at Collégiale Saint-Ours de LLoches

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Also by Jean Fouquet:

The Building of a Cathedral
- Jean Fouquet
- parchment (39 x 29 cm) c.1465
- Bibliothèque nationale de France  

Solomon completed the temple at Jerusalem begun by his father David. The temple took 7 years to complete. It was dedicated a year later, in a 7-day ceremony at the New Year festivities.

        It was destroyed by a Babylonian king in 586 B.C.E., rebuilt in 515 B.C.E., and finally destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E.


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Some other Gothic-style cathedrals:
Note the rib vault ceilings and rose windows (stained glasses)

The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens 
(or simply Amiens Cathedral)
a Roman Catholic church (Amiens)

Chartres Cathedral
(French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres)
a Roman Catholic church in Chartres, France 

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The Sainte-Chapelle
a royal chapel within the medieval Palais de la Cité
(residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century)
on Île de la Cité (Paris)

Lady Chapel in Wells Cathedral,
an Anglican cathedral in Wells (Somerset, England)

Source: Wikipedia