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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...
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which he
intended to
house the
tombs of his dynasty. His tomb, with
pleurants and his re****bent effigy, is an
outstanding work of
Burgundian sculpture...
- him,
positioned in
alternating double archways and
triangular niches,
pleurants (mourning figures) walk as if part of a
funeral procession. The figures...
- The tomb is made from
black marble and
bronze and
originally held 24
pleurants (mourners or weepers)
statuettes positioned in
niches below Isabella's...
- Reformation. The
effigy is
placed on top of an
altar tomb
lined with 22
pleurants (or "weepers"), who are also
dressed in armour.
Stuart was the
third surviving...
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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
gisant (re****bent statue),
which is at the
Louvre museum, and the
pleurants (mourning statue), at the Musée de Cluny, the
Middle Ages
museum in Paris...
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including ten "
pleurants", were
removed by
genteel looters.
Philip the Bold, with the "Retable of the crucifixion"
behind "
Pleurants" or
mourners below...
