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Pleurants or weepers (the English meaning of pleurants) are anonymous sculpted figures representing mourners, used to decorate elaborate tomb monuments

pleurants (mourners or weepers) statuettes positioned in niches below Isabella's effigy, of which ten (five men and five women) are extant. The mourner's faces

business entailed with hiring or renting mourners for a funeral. It is said that a funeral with an abundance of mourners makes the deceased appear to have lived

statuettes of noblemen and women standing in niches, now known as 'weepers' or 'mourners', placed above a bronze effigy of Isabella. Art historians generally

(Placzek) or ['pu̯aʈ͡ʂek] (Płaczek) Origin Language(s) Polish Meaning weeper, mourner, sniveller [citation needed] Region of origin Poland Other names Variant

contribution was in adding to outlines of the capitals above the mourners. Sluter designed the mourners themselves, the cherubs above them, and the detail in the

pages with titles containing weep All pages with titles containing wept "Jesus wept", a phrase in the Bible Pleurants, or weepers, sculpted figures on a monument

transforming the mourners from the earlier static and unemotional figures to, according to the art historian John Moffitt, individualised weepers that "stumble

Keats's death and chastised (sts. XXXVI–XXXVII). The poet urges the mourners not to weep any longer. Keats has become a portion of the eternal and is free

(or "chest") tomb contains 22 pleurants (or "weepers", that is, sculpted figures representing mourners) dressed in armour; eight on each long side and