• Spinner or Saint: Context and Meaning in Gauguin�s First Fresco

    published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century, Volume 11, Issue 2. This article investigates the question (still unresolved in the scholarship) as to whether or not Paul Gaugin portrayed Joan of Arc in his first extant mural Breton Girl Spinning (Jeanne d�Arc), 1889]. This mural remained publicly unknown until 1924; it is now in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

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