Fouquet is considered one of the most important French artists prior to the Renaissance given his ability to work with oil paint. Art historians have always referred to the stone in "The Melun ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named ... conclusively to identify whether a handaxe is represented in this 15th century painting," the authors wrote.

The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern French town in which church the ... that likely had social or religious functions in 15th-century France. “The hand axe–like stone had ...

For the French of the mid-15th-century, beauty was briefly embodied by a single woman: Agnès Sorel—and there’s a Virgin and Child painting to prove it. As the title promises, Jean Fouquet’s ...

The Melun Diptych, however, predates Gessner’s work by more than a century ... it to a sample of 20 French Acheulean hand axes. While they admit that the painting’s hues could be distorted ...

A stone ax of the type used more than 500,000 years ago has been spotted in an unexpected place — a painting from the 15th century ... by the noted Renaissance French artist Jean Fouquet ...

This 15th-century French painting from an unknown artist depicts a minstrel performing for a king. National Library of France via Wikimedia Commons This discovery is quite rare, in part because ...