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Chapter Two Concludes
The image? JOAN OF ARC.
“John Millais turned to historical subjects in the 1860s. One of his most intense works on an historical theme, Joan of Arc, shows the figure of a young girl kneeling in prayer. Wearing a half-suit of armour and chain-mail and a red skirt, Jeanne D’Arc (1412-31) is shown at the moment when the voices of Saints Michael, Catherine and Margaret give her courage to fight against the English. The Saints tell her that she must first raise the siege of the city of Orléans and then conduct King Charles VII of France to his coronation at Reims. Having accomplished all of this, she was prevented by the French patriots from returning to her home at Domrémy, and then captured by the Burgundians who in turn handed her over to the English. Sentenced as a heretic by a court of French churchmen, she was burned at the stake at Rouen by the English.”
(http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/john-everett-millais/11267)
This is…perfect.
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