Picture "Madonna Surrounded by Cherubim and Seraphim" (around 1450), golden framed version
Picture "Madonna Surrounded by Cherubim and Seraphim" (around 1450), golden framed version
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 980 copies | numbered | certificate | reproduction, Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 84 x 77 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Madonna Surrounded by Cherubim and Seraphim" (around 1450), golden framed version
Jean Fouquet (around 1415 to around 1480) is one of the most important French painters of the 15th century. He worked for King Charles VII and was a court painter under his successor Louis XI. His "Madonna" is one of his most famous works and most probably portrays Agnes Sorel, the mistress of Charles VII.
This painting has an extraordinary history: originally, it belongs to the right panel of Fouquet's "Diptych of Melun", which he painted around 1455 as a commission for the royal treasurer Étienne Chevalier. The left panel shows Chevalier himself as well as his patron saint, St. Stephen. In 1775, the panels of the diptych were sold separately. Today, the "Madonna" is owned by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, while the left panel belongs to the collection of the National Museums in Berlin.
Original: around 1450, oil on wood, 94 x 84 cm, right panel of the Melun Diptych, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.
Fine Art Giclée edition transferred directly onto artist's canvas and stretched on a stretcher frame. Limited edition of 980 copies, numbered, with certificate. Framed in a handmade, golden solid wood frame with black shadow gap. Size 84 x 77 cm (h/w). ars mundi Exclusive Edition.
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Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, to spray".
The Giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format print produced with an inkjet printer using special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The inks are lightfast, meaning they are resistant to harmful UV light. They provide a high level of nuance, contrast, and saturation.
The Giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade paper and watercolour paper as well as silk.
(Rebirth). Term used to describe art from around 1350 until the 16th century.
Beginning in Florence, by the late 14th century, a mindset developed that, in retrospect, was classified as the rebirth of the classical ideals of ancient Greece and Rome. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Renaissance spread first through Italy and then across Western Europe, influencing the entire artistic creation. Brilliant artists such as Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dürer, Holbein, Cranach and Fouquet created their immortal works by following the humanistic premises and placing the human being in the centre of all thinking.
In literature, the Renaissance reached its pinnacle through the dramatic works of William Shakespeare.
By the end of the 16th century, the Renaissance had to give way to the opulence of the Baroque, before its ideas experienced a rebirth in the Classicism of the 18th century.