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Musée du Louvre - Les collections du département des arts graphiques. Données sur l'oeuvre Etudes d'après des statues de priants et de gisants - DELACROIX Eugène
Nuño Freire de Andrade, Santa María de Monfero, 1431
Tomb of Richard Whalley (d.1583), his armoured effigy lying with a whale at his feet (a pun on his surname) and behind him three panels carved in relief depicting his three wives and the 25 children they collectively bore him! Unfortunately the tomb was moved in Victorian times along with other monuments into the cramped, dark and currently cluttered space beneath the tower. St Wilfrid's at Screveton is a very rewarding church. It is a fairly humble building with a short nave, aisles and chancel, but contains some good fittings; a fine Norman font, a beautiful 14th century misericord in the chancel and some interesting monuments under the tower, primarily the large tomb with effigy to Richard Whalley (d.1583, he even has a 'whale' as a footrest!) and relief panels to his three wives and 25 children! Part of a 15th century tomb chest with three damaged angels is set in the wall nearby (almost hidden by a display board). The carved royal arms looked interesting, but it was too dark to really make it out. This church appears to be normally open.
1463
1450 according to Effigies and Brasses
Sir Reginald Cobham (1382-1446) and second wife Anne, daughter of William Phelip, Lord Bardolph (d1454). Fought at Agincourt (1415) : detail
Une voyante qui prédit un drame, des femmes qui se transforment en torches vivantes et des dandys qui se fraient un chemin à coups de canne parmi les corps gisants qui s’amoncellent… Bienvenue au Bazar de la Charité ! Aujourd’hui, je vais vous conter un événement tragique qui a ébranlé le Grand Monde parisien en 1897,…
Larmes d’albâtre, les pleurants du tombeau de Jean sans Peur, duc de Bourgogne - Exposition au Musée de Cluny, 2013. Les pleurants du tombeau de Jean sans Peur comptent parmi les chefs-d’œuvre de la sculpture bourguignonne du XVème siècle. Ils proviennent du monument funéraire du duc de Bourgogne et de son épouse Marguerite de Bavière, commandé par leur fils Philippe le Bon en 1443. Le sculpteur Jean de La Huerta se consacre au tombeau jusqu’en 1456. Il réalise la galerie finement ciselée, les pleurants, les anges de la dalle et le heaume. Son successeur Antoine Le Moiturier sculpte les gisants de 1466 à 1469, achève les pleurants et les arcatures. Selon le contrat, les artistes devaient s’inspirer au plus près du tombeau de Philippe le Hardi, père de Jean sans Peur : il est ainsi difficile d’attribuer les pleurants à l’un ou l’autre sculpteur. Source : communiqué de presse.
The gisants of Pierre d'Évreux-Navarre (+1412) and his wife Catherine d'Alençon (+1462) once adorned their tomb which could be seen in the choir of the église de la Chartreuse in Paris, a church that got destroyed during the French Revolution. They were carved around 1412/1415 and show contemporary armour and clothing of the time. Pierre's early full plate armour is basic and smooth: the poleyns (knee cops) show no lames in between the greaves and the cuisses. But the back of his knees are protected by lames instead of mail, a very modern feature. Also no traces of decoration can be found, except for the border with rivets at the end of his vambraces. A mail collar protects Pierre's neck. He would have worn a 'great bascinet' (which had plate defences for the throat instead of a mail aventail). His loosely worn surcoat covers his armour but does show an early 'fauld' (protection for the lower body consisting of horizontal lames) which ends in a point. A fauld was always attached to a breastplate or a cuirass so we can be very sure that underneath the surcoat Pierre's torso is completely encased in plate armour.
