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- Pleurants or weepers (the English meaning of pleurants) are anonymous sculpted figures representing mourners, used to decorate elaborate tomb monuments...
- prayer, and wearing armour and a heraldic tunic. The eight mourners (pleurants) are dressed in black hoods and act as pallbearers carrying him towards...
- first line of the B phrase is inverted on the repeat (at the point of "en pleurant"), to make the phrase period, and thus provide closure to the AABB form...
- The Mourners of Dijon (pleurants of Dijon) are tomb sculptures made in Burgundy during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. They are part...
- The tomb is made from black marble and bronze and originally held 24 pleurants (mourners or weepers) statuettes positioned in niches below Isabella's...
- douce et profonde, Si l'on répand encore des larmes dans le ciel, Porte en pleurant mes pleurs aux pieds de l'Éternel! Carlos va venir!....Oui! Qu'il parte...
- d’Amérique du Nord, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen; Un Canadien et sa femme pleurant sur le tombeau de leur enfant, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, tableau interprété...
- him, positioned in alternating double archways and triangular niches, pleurants (mourning figures) walk as if part of a funeral procession. The figures...
- Gothic cathedrals and churches History of painting List of Gothic artists Pleurants Renaissance of the 12th century The Ten Virgins Timeline of Italian artists...
- beneath a more conventional effigy. Mourning or weeping figures, known as pleurants were added to important tombs below the effigy. Non-re****bent types of...