For the French of the mid-15th-century, beauty was briefly embodied by a single woman: Agnès Sorel—and there’s a Virgin and Child painting to prove it. As the title promises, Jean Fouquet’s ...

French Medieval wall paintings hidden for more than 500 years ... The late 13th century paintings were whitewashed following a mid 15th-century fire at the cathedral and subsequently boxed behind ...

Buettner wrote her dissertation on an early 15th-century French illuminated manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio’s On Famous Women (published as a College Art Association monograph in 1996). After writing ...