Word: miralhet
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...painters wandered to wherever their commissions took them, and so their work became a graceful blend of French and Italian styles. Nice's Louis Brea, who founded a "dynasty" of painters, is perhaps the most famous name in the show, but no work surpasses the splendor of Jean Miralhet's Virgin of Misericordia...
...Miralhet was born in Montpellier around 1394, died in Nice some 60 years later. He had studios in both Marseille and Nice, and Louis Brea is known to have worked with him. Though the Virgin of Misericordia, which hangs in the Chapel of the Black Penitents in Nice, is Miralhet's only known work, French experts still think it is evidence enough to rank him as one of the finest artists of his time. The time was one that lived in dread of the plague, and Miralhet's Virgin is shown tenderly shielding the city's population...
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