MINIATURIST, French
(active 1490s in Paris)

Les Vigils de Charles VII

1490s
Manuscript (MS Fr. 5054)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

In the 15th century France was drawing together all the territories where French was spoken. In the miniature on folio 35v of this manuscript, the nation is personified as a woman worshipping the Trinity. She and her attendants are arrayed in the fleur-de-lis.




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