Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France . in 1477, in a description of Tourainewritten to a friend, as the best painter of that time in France;and Antonio Filarete praises the picture which Jean Fouquetpainted on canvas in the Minerva at Rome, representing PopeEugene IV. with two cardinals, about 1443. From 1470 to147s he was paid by Louis XI. for pictures, miniatures, andthe design for a tomb, but his chief patron was Etienne Cheva-lier, treasurer of Charles VII. and Louis, for whom he finishedthe copy of Boccaccios Des Cas des Nobles Hommes etFemmes, now at Munic
Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux of France . in 1477, in a description of Tourainewritten to a friend, as the best painter of that time in France;and Antonio Filarete praises the picture which Jean Fouquetpainted on canvas in the Minerva at Rome, representing PopeEugene IV. with two cardinals, about 1443. From 1470 to147s he was paid by Louis XI. for pictures, miniatures, andthe design for a tomb, but his chief patron was Etienne Cheva-lier, treasurer of Charles VII. and Louis, for whom he finishedthe copy of Boccaccios Des Cas des Nobles Hommes etFemmes, now at Munich, on 24th November 1458, and alsoa prayer-book in which his taste for Italian architecture isespecially remarkable. Nine of the miniatures in the Frenchtranslation of Josephus in the Bibl. Nat. (Franc. 247) are byFouquet, and again show the strong Italian influences underwhich he worked. Examples in England, either of the workof this artist of Tours, or of his school, are the illuminations (Bkadcd yiii. cTtom^ a porttalt In %ffl-l ffalbty,cHorence, Coitidt unknown. uhzee zDuhed of Utleand 125 many Italian artists who came from Rome by Nar-bonne and passed through Touraine on their wayto Paris or to England. Such a traveller, we maysuppose, was the unknown artist who built the cha-teau of Bury in 1502, for Florimond shower of Italian influences let loose by theexpedition of Charles VIII. did not fall upon soilthat was unprepared for it. Touraine and all Francewere already eager to learn more of the Italy withwhich they had begun to come in contact. Anexact idea of this connection with Italy, eventhough briefly stated, is absolutely necessary forthe understanding of what follows in the historyof France.^ John the Good, King of France, whodied in 1364, had a daughter Isabella, who marriedGian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan. Thepalace to which the French princess was broughtwas filled with priests and friars from the Certosa,with professors from the new colle
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