Joshua's Conquest Of Jericho: Art Analysis
Jean Fouquet and James Tissot depict Joshua's conquest of Jericho in very different ways owing to the facts that they lived in different times, and therefore led very different lives. I intend to highlight the ways in which their different experiences influenced their artwork. Using a variety of sources, I intend to embark on a comparison contrast of two pieces of artwork: The Taking of Jericho, by James Tissot (c. 1896-1902) and Prise de Jéricho by Jean Fouquet (c.1470-75). I will give further details about the two artists to explain why they depicted the conquest of Jericho in their respective styles.
The first noticeable difference between the two artworks is that Jean Fouquet draws the Israelites as a mob of people as opposed to an organized, …show more content…
Fouquet draws them with an exotic style, as stated by *insert author's name* in *insert title of book* "their faces are Eastern and their costumes also definitely Oriental." Fouquet might have portrayed the Israelites as exotically oriental in order to emphasize the difference between their culture and French culture. Another explanation for Fouquet's choice of orientalism is that René, Duke of Anjou and Lorraine, was an important patron of the arts in fifteenth century France. René was a man of cosmopolitan tastes; he enjoyed having artworks representing many different countries and cultures in his personal collection. Fouquet might have been trying to appeal to these "cosmopolitan tastes." Tissot, on the other hand, invested much more time and energy, going to Palestine for the first time in 1885 to gather information about historical locations and details of the period. He based the costumes and clothing in his biblical paintings on what the Jews and Arabs in Palestine were wearing in 1885, thinking their choice of clothing hadn't changed since the time of …show more content…
This is evident by of the presence of a desert as well as the many hills, as you can see in this next Google Earth picture:
This is a satellite photo of the current city of Jericho. I chose to show a very broad picture of the entire region so as to display the makeup of the landscape. Notice the colour of the land and the many hills when you compare this photo the James Tissot's The Taking of Jericho (See Appendix A for The Taking of Jericho)
Furthermore the two artists used very different strategies when deciding how to depict the buildings of Jericho. The homes that are supposed to have been housed within the walls of Jericho are clearly not Middle Eastern in Jean Fouquet's miniature. They appear to be very European, as you can see by comparing the architecture in the following Google Earth satellite photograph of a street in the Loire Valley to Jean Fouquet's miniature (See Appendix
The first noticeable difference between the two artworks is that Jean Fouquet draws the Israelites as a mob of people as opposed to an organized, …show more content…
Fouquet draws them with an exotic style, as stated by *insert author's name* in *insert title of book* "their faces are Eastern and their costumes also definitely Oriental." Fouquet might have portrayed the Israelites as exotically oriental in order to emphasize the difference between their culture and French culture. Another explanation for Fouquet's choice of orientalism is that René, Duke of Anjou and Lorraine, was an important patron of the arts in fifteenth century France. René was a man of cosmopolitan tastes; he enjoyed having artworks representing many different countries and cultures in his personal collection. Fouquet might have been trying to appeal to these "cosmopolitan tastes." Tissot, on the other hand, invested much more time and energy, going to Palestine for the first time in 1885 to gather information about historical locations and details of the period. He based the costumes and clothing in his biblical paintings on what the Jews and Arabs in Palestine were wearing in 1885, thinking their choice of clothing hadn't changed since the time of …show more content…
This is evident by of the presence of a desert as well as the many hills, as you can see in this next Google Earth picture:
This is a satellite photo of the current city of Jericho. I chose to show a very broad picture of the entire region so as to display the makeup of the landscape. Notice the colour of the land and the many hills when you compare this photo the James Tissot's The Taking of Jericho (See Appendix A for The Taking of Jericho)
Furthermore the two artists used very different strategies when deciding how to depict the buildings of Jericho. The homes that are supposed to have been housed within the walls of Jericho are clearly not Middle Eastern in Jean Fouquet's miniature. They appear to be very European, as you can see by comparing the architecture in the following Google Earth satellite photograph of a street in the Loire Valley to Jean Fouquet's miniature (See Appendix