A medallion on this artwork’s back side contains the oldest known signed self-portrait. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this artwork whose leftmost panel shows its patron Etienne Chevalier beside St. Stephen. A spherical-breasted Agnès Sorel is surrounded by red and blue cherubs in this artwork’s Virgin and Child panel.
ANSWER: Melun Diptych
[10m] Jean Fouquet, the artist of the Melun Diptych, also painted one of these works named after Chevalier. An old man who holds the sun in a chariot appears several times in a blue lunette in a different one of these works.
ANSWER: book of hours [prompt on illuminated manuscript] (The second work is The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry.)
[10e] Fouquet’s few known works include a depiction of this scene at a church in the village of Nouans. Michelangelo’s marble sculpture of this scene sits at the front of the Vatican.
ANSWER: Pietà
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