Claus Sluter
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Claus Sluter was a Dutch sculptor, living in the Duchy of Burgundy from about 1380. He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the "northern realism
Statue of Claus Sluter in Dijon.
Zechariah and two mourning angels from the Well of Moses
Monumental portal of the Chartreuse of Champmol at Dijon by Claus Sluter
Pleurants
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Pleurants or weepers are anonymous, sculpted figures representing mourners, used to decorate elaborate tomb monuments, mostly in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages. Typically they are relative
Claus Sluter
…reconstructed) has been moved to the Museum of Fine Arts which is housed in the former ducal palace in Dijon. Sluter was one of the sculptors of the pleurants, or mourners, which occupy niches below the tombs of Philip the Bold, his wife Margaret, and John the Fearless. Antoine, Elisabeth. Art from the Court…
Pleurants of Margaret of Bourbon (1438–1483) in the Royal Monastery of Brou, in Bourg-en-Bresse, France, by Conrad Meit
Effigy of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Life-sized pleurants from the tomb of Philippe Pot, Louvre, Paris
Pleurants from the Tomb of Isabella of Bourbon, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam