Kings, queens, and courtiers: art in early Renaissance France

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The France of Charles VIII and Louis XII : a turning point? / Philippe Contamine -- The genesis of the work of art : the patron and the artist in France around 1500 / Philippe Lorentz -- The artistic landscape around 1500 : words and things / Pierre-Yves Le Pogam -- Princesses as patrons / Martha Wolff -- The transformations of the mid-fifteenth century / Frédéric Elsig -- Louis XI and the princes of the blood / Martha Wolff -- The kings and their artists / Thierry Crépin-Leblond and Martha Wolff -- The sources of artistic creation : centers and artists / Geneviève Bresc-Bautier -- Bourges and the Loire Valley / Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot -- The Bourbons and the Bourbonnais / Martha Wolff -- Paris, capital of the arts / Etienne Hamon -- The North and the migration of artists / Frédéric Elsig -- The diffusion of the work of art / Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye and Séverine Lepape -- The fascination of Italy : myth and reality / Geneviève Bresc-Bautier.