The Mourners of Dijon (pleurants of Dijon) are tomb sculptures made in Burgundy during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. They are part of a new iconographical tradition led by Claus Sluter that continued until the end of the fifteenth century. In this tradition, free-standing sculptures depict mourners who stand next to a bier or platform that holds a body in state. The figures are cloaked in robes which mostly hide their faces.[1]
The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga described the tomb as the "most profound expression of mourning known in art, a funeral march in stone."[2] The pleurants were commissioned to resemble those in the Tomb of Philip the Bold.[3]
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The MournersofDijon (pleurants ofDijon) are tomb sculptures made in Burgundy during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. They are part...
outlines of the capitals above the mourners. Sluter designed the mourners themselves, the cherubs above them, and the detail in the arches of the niches...
the pleurants, given the similarity of the solid and rigid rendering of their clothing to the MournersofDijon which are often attributed to him. Guillaume...
group of sculptures of Pleurants known as the MournersofDijon. Completed in 1470, these sculptures are in the architectural frieze on the tombs of Duke...
end of the chest had a relief of the dead prince, covered by a cloth that leaves his face exposed, being carried by four bearers. MournersofDijon, 15th...
former ducal palace in Dijon. Sluter was one of the sculptors of the pleurants, or mourners, which occupy niches below the tombs of Philip the Bold, his...
Carthusian monastery on the outskirts ofDijon, which is now in France, but in the 15th century was the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy. The monastery was founded...
century, dir. P. QuarrÃ, exhibition at the Museum ofDijon, Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, Dijon, 1972. Jacques Baudoin, Large imagiers West, Nonet...
exhibition. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon Dukes of Burgundy Dijon "The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy". Archived from the original...
the first half of the 19th century and today it is in housed the former palace of the dukes, now part of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Philip the Bold...
statues of the mourners, as well as the angels. Beth Harris; Steven Zucker. "Claus Sluter and Claus de Werve, Mourners, from the Tomb of Philip the Bold"...
Lane becomes "both the celebrant and the sacrifice of the constantly repeated Mass". The mourners gather around the tomb in a semi-circle, looking sorrowfully...
throughout the period of operations in France. On 8 August 1944, he was dropped to Operation Houndsworth base, located west ofDijon, in order to co-ordinate...
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sarcophagus, upon the sides of which a procession ofmourners is represented. The most celebrated example of this style is the monument of Philip the Bold by Claus...
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