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JEAN FOUQUET
Jean Fouquet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1450
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- Jean Fouquet (1420-1481) was born in Tours, then the seat of the French monarchy.
- Fouquet worked for King Charles VII of France and his court.
- His work in panel painting, illuminated manuscripts, and portraiture earned him a reputation as the most important French painter of the 1400s.
- Under Charles's successor, King Louis XI,
he was appointed Court Painter and in this exalted position, he supervised a large workshop that produced paintings and manuscripts.
On a visit to Rome around 1445, Jean Fouquet caused a great sensation when he painted a portrait of Pope Eugenius IV on canvas rather than the more common wood support. The momentous result of this sojourn, where he admired the work of the most innovative Italian artists of the 1400s, was that Fouquet introduced concepts and techniques of Italian Renaissance art into French painting. (getty.edu)
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No instance of this dangerous association of religious
with amatory sentiments could be more
striking than the Madonna ascribed to Foucquet.
Johan Huizinga
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