St. Joan in Art

http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2011/04/poem-to-honor-jeanne-darc.html

Tu, Jehanne, de bonne heure née,
Benoist soit cil qui te créa!
Pucelle de Dieu ordonnée,
En qui le Saint Esprit réa
Sa grant grace, en qui ot et a
Toute largesse de hault don,
N'onc requeste ne te véa.
Qui te rendra assez guerdon?

Blessed be He who created thee, Joan,
Who wast born at a propitious hour!
Maiden sent from God,
Into whom the Holy Ghost poured
His great grace, in Whom there was and is
An abundance of noble gifts,
Never did Providence refuse thee any request.
Who can ever begin to repay thee?

St. Joan in Prison by Howard Pyle


The Call of St. Joan by Bastien-LePage


St. Joan by Mucha

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2012/05/joan-of-arc-john-everett-millais-1865.html



St. Joan by John Everett Millais

Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, basilique Saint Pol Aurélien, Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Finistère (Bretagne). Photo par M.Hyacinthe DesJars de Keranrouë.

Wonderful pictures!!

Thanks! More to come!

Via La France pittoresque:
Affiche pour la pièce "Jeanne d'Arc" (1890) de Jules Barbier, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, avec Sarah Bernhardt




(Via The Dove and the Rose)


Sainte Jeanne d'Arc par Jean II Benner (1836-1909)

My favorite.

http://maryvictrix.com/2009/06/11/damsels-in-distress/

It surprised me to see how often Joan of Arc has been used as a vehicle for propaganda.

I admit, it shouldn't have surprised me, all things considered, but I thought I'd share two of my findings:



This is reasonable enough, particularly since France and the United States were on the same side so to speak. Joan of Arc was an ally of the U.S by extension, I guess.



This one was a bigger plot twist. A pro-German poster of 1943, it declares that criminals always return to the scene of the crime in reference to the English.

Thank you very much for posting these. I have seen the second one before and have been looking for it for years. There is also a WWII poster from France Libre which shows Joan as well. I would love to find it again.

I did a cursory google search and couldn't find anything like you're describing, alas. The closest I found was this:



It is an image of Joan's martyrdom, bearing the cross of Lorraine, which was the emblem of Gaulist resistance to the Vichy government?

I also scanned this in:



It's Joan of Arc leading a French army from the 19th century. It appears that some Napoleanic soldiers are coming to help her. My father used to read me this story when I was a little girl and I remember him sarcastically commenting that Joan didn't do her army much good since the French suffered a colossal defeat. He must've really liked the joke because I showed him the picture again and over a decade later he made the same joke.

He must think he's so very witty.

I'm quite fond of this image myself



if for no other reason than for how apathetic Joan looks. "You're burning me at the stake? Whatever."

But if I wanted to keep with my theme of posting propaganda, I could note that Joan is definitely feminized despite historical evidence to the contrary. For practicality's sake Joan cropped her hair short and when she was taken to the stake I believe she was almost completely shaven. She was also crowned with a dunce cap that enumerated her heresies.



So too with this picture. To make Joan less scandalous she has her legs partly covered by something of a dress.

Not a capital offense for the painters, of course, but I do find it somewhat ironic. It is often forgotten that for all Joan claimed to be hearing voices from heaven the heresy she was burned for was wearing men's clothes. By stuffing her back into more feminine attire the artist is almost implicitly agreeing with her accusers.

You FOUND it! The first one on your last post is it!! I love it! Thank you, Bunnies!

Great pics and commentary. Joan did wear a surcoat, a long tunic, and a nice one, too, so they say.

Elena wrote:You FOUND it! The first one on your last post is it!! I love it! Thank you, Bunnies!

Great pics and commentary. Joan did wear a surcoat, a long tunic, and a nice one, too, so they say.

Yay, I found it!

Oh, did she wear a long tunic? I do remember reading the British criticizing her penchant for fashion so that makes sense.