In the Louvre’s Richelieu wing, there is a marble statue, sculpted by François Rude in 1852, titled Jeanne d’Arc écoutant ses voix. Rude captures the young St. Joan of Arc in a moment of complete attentiveness. Her mouth is open, her head tilted, her right hand raised as she listens to “her voices”—St. Michael the Archangel, St. Catherine of Alexandria, and St. Margaret of Antioch. This is not the…
