A FAMILY MERRY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY GIFT BOX
A FAMILY MERRY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY ceramic tile gift box ... Jean Fouquet (About 1420 - 1481) painted this Madonna and Child Enthroned before 1455 (Before the end of the Hundred Years War) ... It was originally painted for a prayer book for Simon de Varie of the French Royal Treasury of King Charles VII. Jean (Jehan) Fouquet is my great great great great great great great great great great great great great (13 greats) grandfather. His direct descendant Amelia Jane Fuqua (one of 14 children and in the 4th generation in America born with name spelled Fuqua from the French Fouquet) was the paternal grandmother of my Great Grandpa Roswell Evans Johnson. Her great great great grandfather Jean Francois Fouquet was the great great great grandson of the Early French Renaissance artist Jean Fouquet ... who was about 8 years younger than Catholic Saint Joan of Arc ... so he was about age 11 when she was burnt alive by the English forces in Northern France at her age 19. Just two years before her death she had pushed back the English enough to allow the French Prince to be crowned King Charles VII at Reims Cathedral ... which she attended. My 13 great grandfather Jean Fouquet became court painter to King Charles VII and his son King Louis XI. ... Mark Edward Westerfield.
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