Froissart's Chroniques and its illustrators: historicity and ficticity in the verbal and visual imaging of Charles VI's Bal des Ardents

• Autores: Lorraine Kochanske Stock
• Localización: Studies in iconography, ISSN 0148-1029, Nº. 21, 2000, págs. 123-180
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The writer analyzes verbal and pictorial representations of the Bal des Ardents, or dance of the burning men, at a festivity hosted by King Charles VI of France in 1393. She examines the different textual constructions of the Bal by Jean Froissart and his fellow chroniclers of the king, identifying the various rhetorical strategies used to achieve different objectives. She compares different visual treatments of the Bal in six extant manuscripts. She shows how a historical event may be diversely “painted” with the “colors” of both rhetoric and pigment.