To gauge female beauty standards throughout Europe during the Renaissance, look no further than depictions of the Virgin Mary. High foreheads and long necks were ideals for Florentines of the 1400s.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Her name was Agnes Sorel, mistress of King Charles the 7th of France. The first officially recognised ...

The ESRF has gone back in time to study the reason for the sudden death of a beautiful mistress of the French king Charles VII, in the XV century. Thanks to synchrotron light, pieces of hair and bits ...

SHE was one of the most beautiful women of her time, who won the heart of a king to become France’s first officially recognised royal mistress. Sorry, there seem to ...

More than five centuries after her death, forensic tests on the remains of France's first officially recognised royal mistress have determined that she was killed by mercury poisoning. Philippe ...

Agnès Sorel known by the sobriquet Dame de beauté (Lady of Beauty), was a favourite, and chief mistress, of King Charles VII of France, by whom she bore three daughters. She is considered the first ...

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