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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...
- 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...
- him,
positioned in
alternating double archways and
triangular niches,
pleurants (mourning figures) walk as if part of a
funeral procession. The figures...
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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...
- (died 1367), Alcobaça Monastery.
Mourning figures or "weepers" (French
pleurants) have been
conventional elements of tomb
architecture since the Gothic...
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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...
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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...
- Reformation. The
effigy is
placed on top of an
altar tomb
lined with 22
pleurants (or "weepers"), who are also
dressed in armour.
Stewart was the third...
