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Joan of Arc Listening for the First Time to the Voices That Predict Her Prominent Fate: Pedro Américo: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro: oil on canvas, 229 × 156 cm (90.2 × 61.4 in) 1886 The Maid of Orleans, entrance of Joan of Arc into Reims in 1429: Jan Matejko: National Museum in Kraków: 1887 Entree de Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans
The Amazonian image of Joan of Arc in armor is perhaps the most recurrent one in popular culture, inspiring thousands, if not hundreds and thousands, of similar depictions.
Several impostors claimed to be Joan of Arc after the execution date. The most successful was Jeanne (or Claude) des Armoises. Claude des Armoises married the knight Robert des Armoises and claimed to be Joan of Arc in 1436. She gained the support of Joan of Arc's brothers. She carried on the charade until 1440, gaining gifts and subsidies.
Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk] ⓘ; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
The Lark (French: L'Alouette) is a 1952 play about Joan of Arc by the French playwright Jean Anouilh. . It was first presented at the Théâtre Montparnasse , Paris in October 1953. Translated into English by Christopher Fry in 1955, it was then adapted by Lillian Hellman for the Broadway production in the same year.
Joan of Arc, Sick, Interrogated in Prison by the Cardinal of Winchester is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Paul Delaroche, created in 1824. The painting depicts Joan of Arc as she is being interrogated by Cardinal Henry Beaufort , of Winchester , despite the fact that the event never happened.
Joan of Arc was captured in 1430 and burned at the stake on May 30, 1431 [3] after a series of trials by the English, through the church, about her attire and because she said that God spoke to her and that she listened. Pizan spent the last of her days at the monastery of Poissy and this is where she wrote "The Tale of Joan of Arc".