Showing posts with label Recumbent Statues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recumbent Statues. Show all posts

Friday, 4 March 2011

Gisants


The recumbent statues of Charles of Burgundy, a.k.a Charles the bold (d. 1477), duke of Burgundy and Marie of Burgundy, duchess of Brabant and archduchess of Austria (d. 1482) in the palace. Those were the days when Burgundy, now a region of France, was far more powerful than the French kingdom...
---------------------------------------
Les gisants de Charles de Valois-Bourgogne, dit Charles le Téméraire, duc de Bourgogne et de Marie de Bourgogne, duchesse de Brabant et archiduchesse d'Autriche dans le château.