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History of mediæval art (1893)

Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 691

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enthcentury appears a French illuminator of great importance and emi-nent independence, Jean Fouquet of Tours. Fouquet was not a painter of miniatures alone. The diptychof Melun, the work of his hand, fully explains the admiration whichwas excited, even in Italy, by the portrait of Pope Eugene IV.,… … Fig. 403.—St. Martin and the Beggar. Miniature by J. Fouquet. de Conches, Paris. Collection of Feuillet Etienne Chevalier, in the character of St. Stephen,—is in the pos-session of L. Brentano in Frankfort-on-the-Main. The chief abilityof Fouquet, however, was displayed in illumination. The…

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