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Tomb of Isabella of Bourbon
Sculpted tomb dedicated to Isabella of Bourbon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The tomb of Isabella of Bourbon was a funeral monument built for Isabella of Bourbon, a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy, then rulers of the Burgundian State. Little is known about her due to her death of tuberculosis in 1465 aged 31. Her monument was commissioned by her daughter Mary of Burgundy and constructed in Brussels sometime between 1475 and 1476 by Jan Borman and Renier van Thienen. Originally placed in the church of St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp in 1476, it was dismantled in August 1566 during the Iconoclastic Fury when parts were either destroyed or looted. Other elements of the tomb were lost during the French Revolution when the church itself was destroyed.
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![]() Reconstruction of the tomb, showing Isabella's effigy displayed with the 10 surviving pleurants. Rijksmuseum, 2021 | |
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Created | Between 1475 and 1476 |
Period/culture | Late Medieval, Northern Renaissance |
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Identification | Pleurants: BK-AM-33 |
The tomb is made from black marble and bronze and originally held 24 pleurants (mourners or weepers) statuettes positioned in niches below Isabella's effigy, of which ten (five men and five women) are extant.[1] The mourner's faces and clothing are individualised and based on her direct ancestors, copied from the now lost tombs of Louis II, Count of Flanders (died 1384) and Joan of Brabant (died 1406), hence their clothes are of a much earlier fashion.
The surviving elements consist of the effigy in the ambulatory of Our Lady's Cathedral, Antwerp, and ten pleurants in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.