Jeanne DArc Au Sacre Du Roi Charles VII, Dans La Cathdrale De Reims [fr.]

Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII, dans la cathédrale de Reims [fr.]

Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII + details.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

Neoclassicism.

Ca.1854. Oil on canvas.

Musée du Louvre (Paris, France)

Isabella of France

She is an assortment of everything divine at once.

Elaine of Astolat

Elaine dies of heartbreak. In accordance with her instructions, her body is placed in a small boat, clutching a lily in one hand, and her final letter in the other. She then floats down the river to Camelot, where she is discovered by King Arthur’s court, who call her ‘a little lily maiden’. - Mysterious Art Century Instagram - Facebook - Twitter - Pinterest

Springtime, 1873, and The Storm, 1880, by Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883)

14th century English king and Page, from “Medieval fashions” by Tom Tierney

“If Isabella was a mere pawn on the royal marriage market, then so too was her husband. Depicting medieval royal and noble women as unwilling pawns in a game of power politics played by men which has nothing to do with them, however kindly it may be meant, gives a disagreeable impression of fragile, submissive victim hood, which in Isabella’s case at least is entirely unwarranted. Isabella was as well-versed in the game of politics as anyone, and certainly was not a feeble chess-piece maneuvered by the hands of powerful men, anachronistically waling, ‘But I don’t love him!’ when informed that she will marry the future king of England.” – Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen by Kathryn Warner