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| Title: Jean Fouquet as a painter of national history Type: Thesis Year: 1998 Abstract: "This dissertation was completed at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in 1997, under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Alexander. In it, I study Jean Fouquet (c. 1405/20-c. 1480) as a painter of national history, looking at three of his manuscripts: a now-lost of copy of Noel de Fribois's Abrege des chroniques de France, presented to Charles VII; a Grandes Chroniques de France, probably made for Charles VII; and Josephus's Jewish Antiquities, painted for Jacques d' Armagnac. [...] Finally, I examine Josephus. Here, analyzing the criteria used to select events for illustration reveals that the cycle was carefully assembled to stress the oscillating rise and fall of the Hebrews. Fouquet's miniatures highlight narrative continuity over a period of centuries, and suggest analogies between Hebrew and French history. Contemporary writers made similar analogies, claiming the French history as God's new chosen people or using Jeremiah's lament for Jerusalem to mourn French suffering". Keywords: Reception of Josephus: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern Period |
