Ten weepers of Isabella of Bourbon 1475 1 of 10

Isabella of Bourbon, Countess of Charolais 1436 to 1465 was the second wife of Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais and future Duke of Burgundy. She... more

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Ten weepers of Isabella of Bourbon 1475 1 of 10

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Isabella of Bourbon, Countess of Charolais 1436 to 1465 was the second wife of Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais and future Duke of Burgundy. She was a daughter of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon and Agnes of Burgundy, and the mother of Mary of Burgundy, heiress of Burgundy.
Isabella became a symbol of the wealth of the Dukes of Burgundy, which would later be inherited by her only daughter Mary. Isabella's funeral monument was erected in the church of St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp in 1476. It was decorated with 24 bronze statuettes of noblemen and women standing in niches, known as 'weepers' or 'mourners', with a bronze effigy of Isabella herself surmounted on it. During the Iconoclast Fury of 1566, radical Protestants destroyed images in Catholic churches and monasteries. The destruction was justified by Calvin's contention that all images in churches were idolatrous and had to be removed. As a result, Isabella's tomb was stripped of its decorations and the 'mourners' disappeared.
However, ten of them turned up in Amsterdam. In 1691

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December 4th, 2015