In the right panel of Jean Fouquet’s Melun Diptych (circa 1455), the Virgin Mary sits with the baby Jesus, surrounded by angels. The left panel features the man who commissioned the work, Étienne ...
Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...
The object depicted was long thought to be a stone. A close-up of "The Melun Diptych", ca. 1455, Jean Fouquet. Courtesy Steven Kangas and authors. The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern ...