Editing Eleanor of Aquitaine (section)

=== Art ===
{{Gallery |title=Eleanor of Aquitaine in art|width=250 | height=170 |align=center |footer=|Saint-Bernard prêchant la 2e croisade, à Vézelay, en 1146.jpg|''Saint Bernard preaching the Second Crusade''<br>[[Emile Signol]], 1839<br>[[Chateau de Versailles]]|

Queen Eleanor (Frederick Sandys, 1858).jpg|''[[Queen Eleanor (painting)|Queen Eleanor]]''<br> [[Frederick Sandys]], 1858<br> [[National Museum Cardiff]]{{Sfn|National Museum Cardiff|2023}}|Edward Burne-Jones - Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor - Google Art Project.jpg|''Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor''<br>[[Edward Burne-Jones]], 1861<br>[[Yale Centre for British Art]]{{sfn|Yale|2024}}|alt2=Nineteenth century depictions of Queen Eleanor, planning to murder Rosamund Clifford, by Frederick Sandys and Edward Burne-Jones}} 
[[File:EleonoraAkvitt vitraz.jpg|thumb|upright|Eleanor issuing charter to Poitiers in 1199, by Steinhal (Town hall, late 19th c.)|alt=Stained glass window from the late nineteenth-century showing Eleanor issuing a charter to the City of Poitiers in 1199]]
Images of Eleanor are common throughout history but since there are none from her lifetime, these are purely speculative. Some romanesque carvings, such as those at the Cloisters in New York and Chartres{{sfn|Kelly|1978|p=xi}} and Bordeaux cathedrals, have been attributed to her but these cannot be substantiated,{{sfn|Metropolitan Museum|2024}}{{sfn|Boyd|2011|pp=25-27}}{{sfn|Turner|2009|p=10}} while completely erroneous claims from medieval art have frequently been used to illustrate articles and books about her, such as a queen from the 14th-century [[Der von Kürenberg|Codex Manesse]].{{efn|The Codex Manese image was used as the cover of some editions of Alison Weir's biography}}{{sfn|Chadwick|2016}}{{sfn|Evans|2014|pp=151–152}} The stained glass window in Poitiers Cathedral with a donor portrait of Eleanor is not original but a nineteenth-century restoration by [[:fr:Adolph Steinheil|Adolphe Steinheil]].{{sfn|Evans|2014|pp=152–153}} Two of the commonest claims have been the fresco in the chapel of at [[St. Radegonde]] at Chinon{{sfn|Cockerill|2019|pp=308–309}}{{sfn|Evans|2014|pp=151–152}} and a donor portrait of a kneeling woman in a twelfth-century [[psalter]], which has led to it becoming known as the Eleanor Psalter.{{sfn|Cockerill|2019|p=340}}

In France, the [[Salles des Croisades]] at Versailles, opened in 1843, showed two 1839 paintings including Eleanor - ''St Bernard preaching the second crusade in the presence of King Louis VII and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine''  by [[Emile Signol]], and ''King Louis VII takes the Oriflamme'' by [[Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse]]. In both, Eleanor is depicted in prayer.{{efn|A third painting from the Salles des Croisades, by [[Franz Winterhalter]], entitled ''Eleanor de Guyenne prend la croix avex les dames de sa cour'', from 1839 was subsequently removed and has been lost{{sfn|Evans|2014|p=156}} }}{{sfn|Evans|2014|pp=155–156}} In contrast, British paintings including [[Frederick Sandys]]'s ''[[Queen Eleanor (painting)|Queen Eleanor]]'' (1858){{Sfn|National Museum Cardiff|2023}} and [[Edward Burne-Jones|Burne-Jones]]'s ''Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor'' (1861 and 1862), depict her as a melodramatic murderess, coincident with the popularity of the Fair Rosamond story, which in itself led to a series of art works. In the twentieth century, similar works appeared by Herbert Sidney (1905), [[Evelyn de Morgan]] (1905), [[John William Waterhouse]] (1916) and [[Frank Cadogan Cowper]] (1920).{{efn|A possible exception to the Rosamund theme is [[Edmund Blair Leighton]]'s painting ''The Accolade'' (1900) in which Eleanor is seen as an authority figure. However, there is doubt as to whether the queen actually is Eleanor.{{sfn|Baker Street|2024}} Despite the lack of evidence, it appears as a book cover (''Le Lit d'Alienor''), as do many other dubious portraits{{sfn|Evans|2014|p=158}}}}{{sfn|Evans|2014|pp=157–158}}
[[Judy Chicago]]'s installation ''[[The Dinner Party]]'' (1979) features a place setting for Eleanor.{{sfn| Brooklyn Museum|2024}} She was also commemorated on a French €0.50 postage stamp in 2004, the 800th anniversary of her death.{{sfn|French Philately|2004}}{{sfn|Evans|2014|pp=149–164}}