Who is this young person kneeling before a crowd of one-percenters? Meet Joan of Arc, one very tough teen. She’s here to convince the exiled French court that she can save France from the British. No wonder they look skeptical!
And just like Sodoma, we get to discover another artist, Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel. He painted a series of six images about Joan’s life for Senator William A. Clark that formerly hung in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC.
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“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo
Episode theme is “Our Story Begins” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). Courtesy of https://filmmusic.io License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Joan information
Cristen Conger “Why was cross-dressing the only crime Joan of Arc was charged with?” 2 February 2009. HowStuffWorks.com. https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/joan-of-arc-trial.htm 11 October 2019
https://www.biography.com/military-figure/joan-of-arc
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Joan-of-Arc
Joan of Arc: Her Image in France and America by Nora Heimann
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98997.Joan_of_Arc
Joan of Arc trial transcripts
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/joanofarc-trial.asp
French medievalism and Clark commission
https://soundcloud.com/nationalgalleryofart/boutet-de-monvels-jeanne-darc-from-print-to-paint
NGA Curatorial Records
https://www.nga.gov/collection/curatorial-records-make-an-appointment.html