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| 'Joan of Arc' (1865) by John Everett Millais; Private Collection |
Joan of Arc is said to be born on January 6, 1412, and although there is no official record of it, the people of the town where she was born remembered that it had happened on Epiphany, Twelfth night, thus the 6th of January. The British painter John Everett Millais, whose work I absolutely love, immortalised the heroine on canvas. I know a lot of his work and saw the wonderful Millais exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2008, but I had never seen this painting before. It's so beautiful and the pre-raphaelite style is so unmistakable. Just look at that face!
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