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  • Weepers

    19 days ago - By Happy Catholic

    Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, was the leading art patron of fourteenth-century France. His tomb, by Claus Sluter and Claus de Werve, is inhabited by alabaster hooded figures, known as "weepers." Description from Paul Johnson, image via Wikipedia
    I really love these figures with their individual features and positions. Paul Johnson, Art: A New History, delights in this eloquently. Of course, I am going to share his comments!
    Sluter was obliged to interrupt his work to attend to Philips tomb, a grand affair mainly in alabaster... Sluter was bidden to attend the funeral and observe it...
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