Royal Monastery of Brou
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The Royal Monastery of Brou is a religious complex located at Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain département, central France. Made out of monastic buildings in addition to a church, they were built at the beg
Façade of the church, Royal Monastery of Brou
Conrad Meit
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Conrad Meit or Conrat Meit was a German-born Late Gothic and Renaissance sculptor, who spent most of his career in the Low Countries.
Royal Monastery of Brou
…in coloured, glazed tiles. Margaret, her second husband Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, and his mother, Margaret of Bourbon, are all buried in tombs by Conrad Meit within the church, which have avoided the destruction that most royal tombs in France have suffered. The monastery is the property of the town of…
The Madonna and Child made for the tomb of Philibert of Chalon at Lons-le-Saunier, now Brussels Cathedral
Judith with the Head of Holophernes, c.1525 (alabaster); unusually, this is signed on the base.
Margaret of Austria's tomb
Margaret of Austria, upper effigy