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Mariette D'Enghien
Mariette d'Enghien, née ''Yolande d'Enghien'' (floruit, fl. 1402), was a French noble, mistress of the French prince Louis I, Duke of Orléans, Louis d'Orleans, brother of Charles VI of France, King Charles VI. Life Mariette (born Yolande) d'Enghien was the daughter of Jacques d'Enghien, Castellan of Mons by either his first wife, Marie de Roucy de Pierrepont. She was known as the Lady of Wiège and Fagnoles, lands she violently seized from her uncle and grandfather. In 1389, she was married to Aubert Le Flamenc, Lord of Cany and Chamberlain to the king, Charles VI of France. Mariette d'Enghien became the mistress of Louis I, Duke of Orléans, brother of King Charles VI. Their son, Jean de Dunois, was born in 1402 and became the comrade in arms of Joan of Arc. She died at Claix, Isère. Mariette d'Enghien in fiction She is a character in the In a Dark Wood Wandering, novel]''In a Dark Wood Wandering''by Hella S. Haasse. Notes References * * Further reading * Étienne Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism'', p. 58, Tate Publishing, 2003. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
