Jean Fouquet - La Fuite de Pompée
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Français : La Fuite de Pompée après la défaite de Pharsale Histoire ancienne, vers 1470-1475. Paris, musée du Louvre, département des Arts graphiques, RF 5271 RMN
Jean Fouquet (1420–1481) was a preeminent French painter of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance. He was born in Tours. Little is known of his life, but he was certainly in Italy before 1447 when he executed a portrait of Pope Eugene IV, who died that year (the portrait survives only in much-later copies).
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1475
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