Wooden polychrome statue, sculpted in the 1400s, of a red-robed man. Displayed in the refectory of the Monastère royal de Brou at Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The Augustinian royal monastery was founded in 1506 by Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, as a memorial and dynastic burial-place for her second husband, Duke Philibert II, his mother, Margaret of Bourbon, and herself.
Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France: this 15th century wooden polychrome statue is amongst religious sculpture dating from the 12th to the 17th centuries displayed in the refectory of the Monastère royal de Brou as part of the municipal art collection. The royal monastery was founded in 1506 by recently-widowed Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (1480-1530), daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Governor of the Hapsburg Netherlands. She planned the Augustinian religious complex as a memorial and dynastic burial-place for her second husband, Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (1480-1504), his mother, Margaret of Bourbon, and herself. The trio are buried in the abbey church, the Église Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou, a masterpiece of elaborate Flamboyant Gothic architecture built between 1506 and 1532. The three richly ornamented mausoleums carved by German-born Late Gothic and Renaissance sculptor Conrad Meit (1480-1551) have avoided the destruction suffered by royal tombs elsewhere in France. In the early 15th century, Bourg-en-Bresse was the capital of the dukes of Savoy and of the ancient province of Bresse. It was conquered by France in 1535, but was restored to Savoy in 1559. A strong citadel built by a later duke withstood a six-month French siege, but the town was finally ceded to France in 1601. The monastery now belongs to the town of Bourg-en-Bresse.
Size: 2592px × 3872px
Location: Monastère royal de Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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