Charles sterling enguerrand quarton biography
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Full Name: Sterling, Charles
Other Names:
- Charles Jacques, pseudonym
Gender: male
Date Born:
Date Died:
Place Born: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Place Died: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Home Country/ies: Poland
Subject Area(s): fifteenth century (dates CE), French (culture or style), and painting (visual works)
Career(s): curators and educators
Overview
Louvre curator of painting and major scholar of French 15th-century art; New York University professor. Sterling was born to a Jewish family in Poland of Scottish decent. He studied law in Poland and was admitted to the bar as a lawyer. His uncle, who owned one of the most successful galleries in Warsaw, instilled an interest in art in him. Sterling married and moved to Paris in determined now to be an art historian. He studied at the Ecole du Louvre under Gaston Brière and at the Sorbonne under Henri Focillon, who he considered his master. His initial area of study during these years was
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Enguerrand Quarton
French painter
Enguerrand Quarton (or Charonton) (c. – c. ) was a French painter and manuscript illuminator whose few surviving works are among the first masterpieces of a distinctively French style, very different from either Italian or Early Netherlandish painting. Six paintings bygd him are documented, of which only two survive, and in addition the Louvre now follows most art historians in attributing to him the famous Avignon Pietà. His two documented works are the remarkable Coronation of the Virgin (–54, Villeneuve-les-Avignon) and The Virgin of Mercy (, Musée Condé, Chantilly). Two smaller altarpieces are also attributed to him.
Life and career
[edit]Quarton was born in the diocese of Laon in nordlig France, but moved to Provence in , possibly after working in the Netherlands. There he worked in Aix-en-Provence, Arles in , and Avignon, where he was based from until his death there in about Provence at this time had some of the most impre
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Enguerrand Charonton
The French painter Enguerrand Charonton (ca. still active ), or Quarton, was one of the finest masters of the school of Provence. His "Coronation of the Virgin" is the most magnificent French altarpiece of the 15th century.
The origin and training of Enguerrand Charonton are unknown. He left Laon for the south of France in and worked in Aix, Arles, and Avignon until The contract for his Virgin of Mercy (), a long rectangular panel, is still preserved; it states that it was to be painted by Charonton and Pierre Villate of Limoges as a votive offering to a convent in Avignon.
The detailed contract for Charonton's Coronation of the Virgin () has also survived. It specified that the zones of hell and purgatory, earth, sky, and paradise should be shown and that paradise was to be the locale of the crowning of the Virgin Mary by God the Father and the Son, identical in appearance, and by the dove of the Holy Ghost. This Trinitarian coronation expresses the