Rotated right by 90 degrees. Head of Margaret of Austria (1480 - 1530), Duchess of Savoy and Regent of the Netherlands, depicted as a middle-aged woman, by German sculptor, Conrad or Conrat Meit (1480-1550). On Margaret’s tomb in the abbey church of the Royal Monastery of Brou at Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Margaret rebuilt Brou monastery to commemorate her late husband Philibert II (1480 - 1504), Duke of Savoy, and to fulfil the wishes of Philibert’s mother, Margaret of Bourbon (1438 - 1483).
Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France: tomb of Margaret or Marguerite of Austria (1480 - 1530), Duchess of Savoy (Savoie) and Regent of the Netherlands, carved by German sculptor, Conrad or Conrat Meit (1480-1550), inside the abbey church of the Royal Monastery of Brou or Monastère royal de Brou. There are two effigies of Margaret on her tomb. In the effigy shown in this image she is depicted as an older woman. The other effigy is of her as a young woman. The monastery was rebuilt in the early 1500s by Margaret of Austria to commemorate her late husband, Philibert II (1480 - 1504), Duke of Savoy, and to fulfil the wishes of Philibert’s mother, Margaret of Bourbon (1438 - 1483). Margaret of Austria, daughter of Habsburg archduke Maximilian, later Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, was one of Renaissance Europe’s most powerful and well-connected women. She was made Regent of the Habsburg Netherlands for the future Emperor Charles V by her father, holding the post from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 to 1530. The abbey church, dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Tolentino and known in French as the Église Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou, was designed by Flemish architect Loys Van Boghem (1470 - 1540), a master builder from Brussels, and built between 1513 and 1532. It is a High Flemish Gothic masterpiece. Bourg-en-Bresse is in the Ain department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, 70km (43 miles) northeast of Lyon. It was capital of the ancient province of Bresse and, since the Revolution, has been capital of the Ain. Throughout much of the middle ages it served as a major outpost of Savoy. It passed to France in 1601. Brou is an historic suburb of Bourg-en-Bresse, a mile east of the centre.
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Location: Royal Monastery of Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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