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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...
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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...
- 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...
- The tomb is made from
black marble and
bronze and
originally held 24
pleurants (mourners or weepers)
statuettes positioned in
niches below Isabella's...
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Gothic cathedrals and
churches History of
painting List of
Gothic artists Pleurants Renaissance of the 12th
century The Ten
Virgins Timeline of
Italian artists...
- The
Mourners of
Dijon (
pleurants of Dijon) are tomb
sculptures made in
Burgundy during the late
fourteenth and
early fifteenth centuries. They are part...
- (died 1367), Alcobaça Monastery.
Mourning figures or "weepers" (French
pleurants) have been
conventional elements of tomb
architecture since the Gothic...
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Venus Weeping for
Adonis French: Vénus
pleurant Adonis Artist Nicolas Poussin Year c. 1626-1627
Medium Oil on
canvas Dimensions 57 cm × 128 cm (22 in × 50 in)...
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initially influenced by the Symbolists, as
evidenced in his
painting Dante pleurant Béatrice (Dante
weeping for Beatrice), now in the Musée de Mulhouse. From...
