More than 600 years after her birth, Joan of Arc — a patron saint of France — remains an object of not just historical, but cultural fascination. Over the summer, we’ve witnessed Chappell Roan’s armor ...

Schuyler Weiss opened his masterclass at an MPA event during the Tokyo International Film Festival’s TIFFCOM market by tackling the most frequently asked question in his career: What does a producer ...

Paintings of a young French girl dressed in armor, riding a white horse and carrying a banner represent how many people view St. Joan of Arc. Other works of art, including sculptures, sketches and ...

Every year, on the evening of Jan. 6, members of the Krewe de Jeanne d’Arc gather at the gilded Decatur Street statue of the French warrior-saint who's their namesake to begin their mounted Medieval ...

French art-movie needler Bruno Dumont makes films that might be described as staring contests with the viewer: Who will blink first, the moviegoer confronted with the penetrating, often religiously ...

Joan, the Maid of Orléans, a/k/a “La Pucelle,” was canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920, meaning that her admission to sainthood still more or less qualified as breaking news when Carl Theodor Dreyer ...

The so-called "relics of Joan of Arc," overseen by the Archbishop of Tours in Chinon, France, do not contain the charred remains of the Catholic saint. Rather, the artifacts consist of a mummified cat ...

Last month, a silver ring believed to have been owned by Joan of Arc was hammered down at nearly £300,000 (about $425,000) at London’s TimeLine Auctions. Given the hefty sale price, the buyer, a ...

Joan of Arc was the subject of rumors and legends even in her own time, and from the 15th century onward her experience has been appropriated according to the needs of the age and artist. Novelist and ...

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