Turn back the clock even further, to the mid-1880s, and the Pre-Raphaelites were calling back to the Middle Ages and chivalric romances in their art ... figures like Joan of Arc — who ...

The Maid was Joan of Arc, whose role in liberating the city ... and misleading questions,” said one contemporary, “many clerics and educated men present there would have had problems answering.” ...

More than 800 years after her birth, Joan ... Arc (1928) starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti. Falconetti’s mesmerizing depiction ...

Cholet, 10 March 1917 - Mlle. Perchoud, a 20 year old farmer’s daughter from France is thought to be the modern day Joan of Arc. Mlle. Perchoud, who lives in Puy Saint Bonnet, near Cholet ...

In a cold, empty room, Joan sits bound and alone as a shadowed figure lowers a barbed wire crown onto her head, its spikes drawing blood and tears. Despite the excruciating pain and isolation ...

To get the stone statue of Joan of Arc to Wichita, Orléans had to get permission from the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre in Paris. “This work of art, like so many pieces in our public art ...