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Mourners of Dijon
The Mourners of Dijon (pleurants of Dijon) are tomb sculptures made in Burgundy during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. They are part of a new iconographical tradition led by Claus Sluter that continued until the end of the fifteenth century. In this tradition, free-standing sculptures depict mourners who stand next to a bier or platform that holds a body in state. The figures are cloaked in robes which mostly hide their faces.[1]
The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga described the tomb as the "most profound expression of mourning known in art, a funeral march in stone."[2] The pleurants were commissioned to resemble those in the Tomb of Philip the Bold.[3]
- ^ Hofstatter (1968), p. 137
- ^ Johnson, Ken. "At the Met, Portraits of Grief, Written in Stone". New York Times, 12 May 2010
- ^ Jugie (2010), pp. 36-42
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