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The Tomb of Philip the Bold is a funerary monument commissioned in 1378 by the Duke of Burgundy Philip the Bold (d. 1404) for his burial at the Chartreuse de Champmol, the Carthusian monastery he built on the outskirts of Dijon, in today's France.
House. Valois-Burgundy. Father. John II of France. Mother. Bonne of Bohemia. Philip II the Bold ( French: Philippe II le Hardi; Dutch: Filips de Stoute; 17 January 1342 – 27 April 1404) was Duke of Burgundy and jure uxoris Count of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy. He was the fourth and youngest son of King John II of France and Bonne of Luxembourg.
The Tomb of Philip the Bold is a funerary monument commissioned in 1378 by the Duke of Burgundy Philip the Bold (d. 1404) for his burial at the Chartreuse de Champmol, the Carthusian monastery he built on the outskirts of Dijon, in today's France.
Sluter’s latest preserved work, the tomb of Philip the Bold, was first commissioned from Jean de Marville, who is responsible only for the arcaded gallery below the sepulchral slab of black marble from Dinant. Forty figures, each about 16 inches (41 cm) high and either designed or executed by Sluter,….
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1390-1406. Alabaster, height 243 cm. Musée Archéologique, Dijon. The tomb of Philip the Bold, made for the choir of the Chartreuse de Champmol is an early sepulchre with pleurents or mourners. This stressed the living grieving for the deceased duke, not his physical transience.
Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. 1390-1406. Alabaster, height 243 cm. Musée Archéologique, Dijon. The tomb of Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy poses the difficult problem of Sluter's workshop. The tomb was commissioned as early as 1377 from Marville, the Master Mason of the Carthusian monastery.
