Enguerrand Quarton

Enguerrand Quarton was a French painter from the diocese of Laon who worked in Provence, in Aix and Avignon, and is the best documented painter of the fifteenth-century Avignon school. His masterpiece, The Coronation of the Virgin, painted in 1454 for the Carthusian monastery at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, sets heaven above a panorama of the world, with Rome and Jerusalem, purgatory and hell. The Avignon Pietà in the Louvre, one of the most famous French paintings of the century, is generally attributed to him. He also illuminated manuscripts.