Pleurants
Subtitle: alabaster mourners for the tomb monument of Jean de Berry (1340-1416)
By: Matthew Reeves ; academic editor Katharina Van Cauteren ; translation (foreword) Lisa Page
Contributors: Bobillet, Etienne, active 1453, artist; Mosselmann, Paul de, active 1453, artist; Cauteren, Katharina van, editor; Page, Lisa, translator
Series: Phoebus Focus -- 26; Phoebus Focus -- 26
Publisher: Kannibaal bvba / Hannibal
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Lichtervelde
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9789464366228
Subjects: Medieval Sepulchral monuments; Medieval Alabaster sculpture; French Figure sculpture
Other titles: Alabaster mourners for the tomb monument of Jean de Berry (1340-1416)
Description: Medieval sculptures are notoriously hard to study. So often divorced from their original context and function by centuries of destruction, alteration or just neglect, the subtleties of their aesthetic impact, their meaning and their symbolic complexity are at times almost completely hidden from us, to be only loosely gleaned or reconstructed. Fortunately, this is not the case with the two beautiful pleurants - or mourners - in the collection of The Phoebus Foundation. This edition of Phoebus Focus takes you on a journey of questions and discoveries: who were these men, for whom were they made, and why? Matthew Reeves tells the story of one of France's richest princes, Jean de Berry (1340-1416), his profound love of art and the wondrous ways in which sculpture can be used to commemorate, move us to prayer, and serve political ends
Notes: Sculpture by Etienne Bobillet and Paul de Mosselmann

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82)