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Reading163 Sculpture (Funerary monuments)

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Reading163 Sculpture (Funerary monuments)

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  1. 163 Reading

  2. The Basilica of Saint Denis (Basilique royale de Saint-Denis) Paris Detail of a tomb

  3. Church of Fontevraud Abbey Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II effigies

  4. The Basilica of Saint Denis Paris The tomb of Philippe II de France

  5. The Basilica of Saint Denis Paris The tomb of Philippe de France (+ 1235)

  6. The Basilica of Saint Denis Paris The tomb of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany

  7. The Basilica of Saint Denis Paris The tomb of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany Details

  8. The Basilica of Saint Denis Paris The tomb of Louis XII of France Details

  9. Louis XII (1462 – 1515) The Basilica of Saint Denis Paris The tomb of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany Details

  10. The Basilica of Saint Denis Paris Detail of the tomb of Louis XII of France

  11. Commissioned by Francis I (the successor to Louis XII), this tomb was designed by Florentine sculptors, the Guisti, residing in France.  "Not since antiquity had the western world seen such a grandiose individual tomb" (Henri Zerner)

  12. In 1502 Louis XII commissioned a tomb in honour of his ancestors, the Dukes of Orleans, which was originally set up in the church of the Celestins in Paris, but is now at St Denis

  13. The tomb of the Dukes of Orleans

  14. The Basilica of Saint Denis Paris Memorial to King Louis XVI (1754 - 1793) king of France and Marie Antoinette (1755 - 1793) Queen of France

  15. King Louis XVI (1754 - 1793) king of France 1774 to 1792

  16. These funerary statues were commissioned by Louis XVIII during the repatriation of the sovereign ashes from the “Cemetery des innocents” in Paris in 1815 in order to celebrate the return of the Bourbons family to the throne of France

  17. Marie Antoinette (1755 - 1793) was the penultimate child of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution

  18. Text and pictures: Internet All  copyrights  belong to their  respective owners Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu https://www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda https://ma-planete.com/michaelasanda 2017 Sound: Cecilia Bartoli – Parto, ti lascio, o cara (N. Porpora, Germanico in Germania, 1732)

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