MASTER of St. Gilles
The Baptism of Clovis
1500
Wood
National Gallery of Art, Washington
This was painted about a thousand years after
Saint Rémy baptized the Frankish King Clovis, thereby converting
him to Christianity. The unknown French artist has transferred the historic
event from Reims to the interior of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, thus
providing the earliest known record of the interior of the famous, still
extant, building.
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