An exciting exhibition examining the reign of Charles VII at the musée de Cluny in Paris sheds light on the missing link between International Gothic and the French Renaissance, a period richer and more complex than it might seem.
The Master of Dreux-Budé/André d’Ypres, Le Baiser de Judas et l’Arrestation du Christ (The Betrayal and Arrest of Christ), left panel of the Dreux-Budé triptych, c. 1450, oil on wood, Paris, the Louvre, Department of Paintings
© RMN-Grand Palais (the Louvre)/Stéphane Maréchalle
An exhilarating exhibition in the frigidarium of the Cluny baths posits that the Renaissance in France began during the reign of Charles VII (1422-1461). Mathieu Deldicque , Director of the musée Condé in Chantilly, Maxence Hermant, Head Curator at the BnF, and Sophie Lagabrielle, General Curator at the musée de Cluny, designed the show, which brings together paintings, sculptures, tapestries, stained glass windows, goldsmith’s pieces and a number of prestigious illuminated manuscripts . Like an investigation, it follows the emergence of art from the chaos of the Hundred Years'…
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