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François Dubois ( 1529 – 24 August 1584) was a French
His only surviving work is the best known depiction of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. A fellow Huguenot refugee, a banker from
of this volume.)
Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...
painter of the Fontainebleau School
The School of Fontainbleau (french: École de Fontainebleau) (c. 1530 – c. 1610) refers to two periods of artistic production in France during the late Renaissance centered on the royal Palace of Fontainebleau that were crucial in forming the No ...
.
Biography
Dubois was born around 1529 inAmiens
Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...
, in the province of Picardy. He was likely related to the anatomist Jacques Dubois
Jacques Dubois ( Latinised as Jacobus Sylvius; 1478 – 14 January 1555) was a French anatomist. Dubois was the first to describe venous valves, although their function was later discovered by William Harvey. He was the brother of Franciscus Sy ...
.
Dubois fled France following the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, when French Catholics killed French Protestants (Huguenots) in Paris. It is not known whether he witnessed the event but a possible relative, the surgeon Antoine Dubois, died in the slaughter. He settled in Geneva
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in the Protestant Republic of Geneva, where he died on 24 August 1584.
Works
His only surviving work is the best known depiction of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. A fellow Huguenot refugee, a banker from Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...
, commissioned the painting to commemorate the event. The painting shows two incidents from the massacre frequently seen in other depictions in popular prints
Popular prints is a term for printed images of generally low artistic quality which were sold cheaply in Europe and later the New World from the 15th to 18th centuries, often with text as well as images. They were some of the earliest examples of ...
and book illustrations: the body of Huguenot leader Gaspard de Coligny hangs out of a window at the rear to the right, and is also depicted decapitated on the ground under the window, with the Duke of Guise standing behind it. To the left rear, Catherine de' Medici, emerges from the Louvre Palace and inspects a heap of bodies.
Dubois is also known to have painted a picture of the Roman Triumvirate.David Kunzle ''From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672'' (Brill, 2002) pp. 163–165 (via googlebooks drilldowof this volume.)
References
Sources
* Martin Schieder, Die göttliche Ordnung der Geschichte. Massaker und Martyrium im Gemälde »La Saint-Barthélemy« von François Dubois, ib: Uwe Fleckner (ed.): Bilder machen Geschichte. Historische Ereignisse im Gedächtnis der Kunst, Berlin 2014, pp. 127–140 (Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus, Bd. 13).External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dubois, Francois 1529 births 1584 deaths People from Amiens 16th-century French painters Artists from the Republic of Geneva French male painters French Renaissance painters Huguenots