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Other audios of the Louvre Audio Guide collection:

1. Short note about the building;
2. The Greek tradition behind the Fayum Mummy Portraits;
3. Cimabue, Giotto, Fra Angelico, the Wonders of the Italian Trecento;
4. Who was whispering in the Ear of Joan of Arc;
5. Van der Weyden and Cusanus;
6. Antonello de Messina and Man in the image of Christ;
7. Ghirlandaio’s immortality;
8. The Rigor of Mantegna’s crucifixion;
9. Leonardo and Verrocchio’s workshop;
10. Why Leonardo didn’t like painting;
11. Mona Lisa made in China?;
12. How Bosch’s Ship of Fools drove the Jester out of business;
13. Why Erasmus had no time to pause for portraits;
14. Rembrandt, sculptor of Light;
15. Why Vermeer was hiding his convictions;
16. Van Eyck, Nicolas Rolin and the Peace of Arras.

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• Jan van Eyck, la beauté comme prégustation de la sagesse divine (FR en ligne) + EN on line.
• Jan Van Eyck, un peintre flamand dans l’optique arabe (FR en ligne)
• Jan Van Eyck, a Flemish Painter using Arab Optics (EN online)
• Rogier Van der Weyden, maître de la compassion (FR pdf)
• Comment Jacques Cœur a mis fin à la Guerre de Cent Ans (FR en ligne)
• How Jacques Coeur put an end to the Hundred Years War (EN online);