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Jean Fouquet — Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels
Jean Fouquet

Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels

1452

An iconic masterpiece of the French Renaissance, this panel depicts the Madonna and Child enthroned and surrounded by red and blue angels. The Virgin is portrayed with porcelain-white skin wearing an ornate jeweled crown and ermine-trimmed blue gown. Known as the right wing of the Melun Diptych, this devotional work exemplifies Fouquet's revolutionary fusion of Northern European technique with Italian Renaissance monumentality.

Medium
Oil on wood panel

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Jean Fouquet, Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, 1452

An iconic masterpiece of the French Renaissance, this panel depicts the Madonna and Child enthroned and surrounded by red and blue angels. The Virgin is portrayed with porcelain-white skin wearing an ornate jeweled crown and ermine-trimmed blue gown. Known as the right wing of the Melun Diptych, this devotional work exemplifies Fouquet's revolutionary fusion of Northern European technique with Italian Renaissance monumentality.

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Year
1452

Related themes

French, Blue Chip, Old Master, Religious, Portrait, Figurative, 15th Century, Renaissance

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Sebastián Naranjo