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Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1364-1404)
Canopy from the tomb of Philip III (the Bold) of France (1245-1285) Work Type. Sculpture-Architectural-Stone. Date. 1297–1307. Location. Made in: France, Ile-de-France. Material. Marble.
Abstract. This thesis is a study of the mourning figures integrated into the tomb of Philip the Bold of Burgundy (made between 1378 -1411). I argue that the form and iconography of the mourners ...
The monastery was destroyed during the French Revolution and the site is now a psychiatric hospital, but some monuments from it survive, including the tombs of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless.
This elaborate architectural canopy was originally an integral part of the tom of Philip III, son of Louis IX (Saint Louis). Commissioned by Philip IV (the Fair) (1268–1314) for the embalmed body of his father, who died in 1285 while on a military crusade against Aragon, master sculptor Jean d’Arras made the tomb in black and white marble.
He carried on the familial tradition of showering munificence on the charterhouse of Champmol, commissioning his parents’ tomb from Claus de Werve, after the model of Philip the Bold’s tomb (Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts), and ordering a triptych from Jan van Eyck (wing with the Annunciation, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art).
Abstract. This article rewrites the history of the tomb of Philip the Bold made for the Chartreuse de Champmol in Dijon, through a close reading and re-transcription of the entire archival record, including some previously unknown documents, paying careful attention to what their terminology and chronology reveal about time, cost, materials and ...
