Explore: Weepers (mourners) In Art

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

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

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 arches

to, according to the art historian John Moffitt, individualised weepers that "stumble forward in mutual anguish while praying in perpetuity for the late

women standing in niches, now known as 'weepers' or 'mourners', placed above a bronze effigy of Isabella. Art historians generally attributed the carvings

metal rather than alabaster and marble and lacks the characteristic mourners ("weepers" or "pleurants") found on the sides of most Burgundian tombs, a deliberate

"pleurants" or mourners ("weepers" is the traditional English term) were set among Gothic tracery. These were described by Johan Huizinga in The Waning of

drawings, the art historian Lorne Campbell believes the tomb was similar that of Louis II, Count of Flanders (d. 1384). The rows of mourners positioned below

literally translated as "female weeper" or "weeping woman", refers to women of lower caste hired as professional mourners in certain areas of Rajasthan. Their

Mourners are implored to "weep for Adonais—he is dead!" In Stanza 9 the "flocks" of the deceased appear, representing his dreams and inspirations. In