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notionalplaces · 7 months

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Transi de René de Chalon by Ligier Richier

This transi has become one of my ‘milestone subjects,’ I tend to take a stab at it after a year or so has passed and usually find myself pleased with the progress I’m making as an artist. I also appreciate the fact it’s helping me figure out which brush settings in procreate work with me rather than against me.

#artists on tumblr #art on tumblr #daily sketch #procreate #digital art #transi de Rene de Chalon #tomb art #tomb sculpture #ano art

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snacking-on-art-2022 · 3 months

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Transi De Rene De Chalon

WHERE: Bar-le-Duc, France

This statue of a man who is currently decaying rapidly is on display in the Saint-Étienne church in Bar-le-Duc, France. He is René de Chalon, Prince of Orange. He and his wife requested that instead of making a nice, normal statue to memorialize him, they wanted one of him as a skeleton with some skin still on it who is holding his own heart. Oh, also, the statue once held the prince’s actual dried heart!

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kddiamondtattoos · 1 year

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My interpretation of a gothic 16th century French tomb - Tomb of Rene de Chalon! 💀

#qttr #queertattooartist #skulltattoo #skeletontattoo #illustration #tombofrenedechalon #renedechalon #frenchhistory

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thetorrentrefugee · 5 years

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sixpenceee:

Displayed in the Saint-Étienne church in France is the figure of René de Chalon, Prince of Orange. The prince died at the young age of 25 during the siege of Saint-Dizier in 1544.

Rather then memorialize him in the standard hero form, his wife requested (or René himself requested, or possibly both) that he be shown as “not a standard figure but a life-size skeleton with strips of dried skin flapping over a hollow carcass, whose right hand clutches at the empty rib cage while the left hand holds high his heart in a grand gesture.” (Source)

(Source: sixpenceee)

#thetorrentrefugee #france #saint-etienne #rene de chalon #prince of orange #saint-dizier #statue #death #beauty #life

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karafuto-chan · 6 years

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I got a new book for Christmas entitled Atlas Obscura, and man have I been in the dark for a while, I didn’t know there was a website too! It documents all these fabulous, quirky, off-the-beaten-path places located all over the world.

For example here’s a statue of a dead, decomposing prince in France that looks downright magical and ethereal. Enjoy!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/transi-de-ren-de-chalon

#Rene de Chalon #Atlas Obscura #Atlas Obscura book #statues #sculptures #skeleton #Death

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fuckindiva · 3 years

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Transi tomb of Rene de Chalon, 1547, France

#memento mori #history #1500s #art #france #q

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bad-moodboard · 4 years

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Cadaver tomb of Rene de Chalon. Sculptor Ligier Richier, 1547.

#skeletons #anatomy #sculpture #taphophilia #tomb

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owlpipscribbles · 4 years

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For honesty hour: What kind of art do you admire/enjoy consuming the most? Like, as an artist, if you were in a museum or something would you prefer art that’s similar to yours or stuff that’s completely different or a mix?

the art i’m usually drawn is vastly different than the kind that i do! i was just thinking about that the other day. something that i want to work on is incorporating more personal, ‘me’ driven themes into my art and maybe even some of my writing. we’ll see!

i really like art/books/poetry/music/etc. with history and deeper meanings that you have to go digging for. in terms of art specifically, i’m drawn to detailed, slightly morbid (like the Memento Mori art movement in the late 1500s through early 1600s), and/or pieces connected to mythology/religion/folk tales.

some of my favorite pieces that pop into my head right away (and there are certainly more) are Transi De Rene De Chalon, Leighton’s Weaving the Wreath, Hirschl’s Souls on the Banks of the Acheron, Makabresku’s The Anatomy of Meloncholy, and anything by Ivan Aivazovsky. for more modern artists @/awanqi here on tumblr (detailed, breathtaking digital art), Jen Mazza (her hand painting are just...chef’s kiss), Roberto Ferri (he’s a big one, i adore his stuff), Andrew Wyeth, and Emil Melmoth (absolutely phenomenal sculptures)

honestly, if you are actually interested i have an ‘art’ tag on my main account @rosesburnedalive where i keep art i like. like i said, i really want to start creating more art that is more like the art i like consuming, while still making fanart because that makes me happy :-)

#mailbox

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x5079x · 5 years

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"Memento mori tomb", the "Transi de René de Chalons" by Ligier Richier, in the church of Saint Etienne in Bar-le-Duc, France: Some state that the statue is from 1545. Rene de Chalon, prince of Orange, who was married to Anne de Lorraine died at the young age of 25 during the siege of Saint-Dizier in 1544. His heart and intestines were cut out and kept in Bar-le-Duc, this was usual for noblemen at the time. His body was send back to Breda where he was born. Anne de Lorraine his widow was still very sad three years after his death so she ordered Ligier Richier to make a statue depicting her husband as he would be then. The right hand clutches at the empty rib cage while the left hand holds high his heart in a grand gesture The heart in his hand served as a reliquary and contained the actual dried heart of Rene de Challon

#x5079x

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juzt-peachy · 5 years

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The Dying Galatian ~ 220 bce // The Defeated Boxer (Boxer at Rest) ~ 330 bce // Laucoön & His Sons ~ 323 bce // Ludovisi Gaul (The Galatian Suicide) ~ 230 bce // Allegory of Time (Kronos) - 1756 // Flayed (The Skeleton, the Tomb of Rene de Chalon, Prince of Orange) - 1547 // The Veiled Christ - 1753 {not my images}

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theradioghost · 6 years

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okay lowkey i am in LOVE with the idea that the angel of death animates statues of angels like. her raven lands on the shoulder of a statue and the obituary writer has a brief moment of “now are you That Raven or just a regular bird” and then the statue looks at him and starts delivering cryptic messages

OW: hmm. that bird landed in the cemetery. I wonder if it’s the angel of death

the button-eyed raven: get FUCKED

OW: oh it’s her. hi!

man I LOVE the idea of her raven being some kind of like, a conduit for her to manifest through the statues. Honestly this HC is like 50% willful misinterpretation of the line about how pale she is and 50% me being really into cemetery sculpture? Because there’s a lot of REALLY GOOD creepy and/or dessicated sort of cemetery angels out there, too, like these fellas (who I believe are at Pere Lachaise):

or The Kiss of Death at Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona:

which has inspired a lot of knockoffs, as famous grave markers often do, like William Wetmore Story’s The Angel of Grief Weeping Over the Dismantled Altar of Life, which he sculpted for his wife’s tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

and there’s also Haserot’s Angel at Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland, who I mentioned in the tags, who isn’t deliberately sculpted as spooky but has famously developed a unique facial patina over the years

and I’m also a fan of August Schmiemann’s Grim Reaper at Melaten in Cologne.

And there’s definitely a tradition of legends of haunted cemetery statues, especially of women and angels for some reason. Black Aggie, a local legend in my area, supposedly had glowing eyes and would move around at night. Eventually the stories got so widespread that they had to move her off the actual tomb she was on, but she’s got a nice spot in a garden in DC now so I think she’s alright.

and then there’s like, cadaver tombs, which represent the deceased as a rotting corpse and were usually commissioned before you died, so you could go look at your own tomb with a sculpture of you rotting on it and go “huh. i sure am gonna die one day.” sometimes they’re like, being eaten by worms. it’s pretty hardcore

or the incredibly Extra cadaver tomb of Rene de Chalon

I got really off-track somewhere here but essentially, Crestfall seems like the kinda town to go All In with their funereal aesthetics and I’m going to adamantly insist that there’s some cool sculpture in that run-down cemetery that sometimes wanders off for a few hours

#a brief note on vanishing acts #travismcelrcy #asks #my posts #that last gentle embrace

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frankiezafe · 6 years

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Transi de René de Chalon - lowpoly, unwrapped and rigged (ready for game engine!) Chubby and caballo page:http://frankiezafe.org/index.php?title=WorkUnit:Uncanny scan: http://threedscans.com/musee-des-monuments-francais/le-transi-de-rene-de-chalon/, found on thingyverse.

#blender #videogame #thingyverse #lowpoly #cycle #uncanny #3d

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thechampervanadventures · 7 years

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June in France and Spain - Week in Rasteau

Friday 9th - Saturday 17th June - We left UK the day after the election having stayed up VERY late to watch the results come in. Took an afternoon ferry to Calais and powered down to Chalons en Champagne to what turned out to be a very nice campsite. Arrived Saturday afternoon in Rasteau in our favourite part of the northern Vaucluse to meet up with Jane, Jean Yves, Pauline and Georg. Gite was very nice - much to Eileen’s relief as she had made the arrangements - set amongst the vineyards with views over the Dentelles de Montmirail and weather was amazingly hot. Judi and Rene came on Sunday for a few days and Liz and Sam joined us on Thursday. We had a lovely week relaxing by the pool, exploring the local countryside, hanging out in villages, eating great meals and visiting some properties.

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endocathexis · 8 years

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#rene de chalon #ligier richier #sculpture #vanitas #black and white

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eccentricmalocchio-blog · 12 years

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Momento mori

Latin phrase. "Remember your mortality"

#Momento mori #Vanitas #Rene de Chalon #Death #Ancient Rome #Roman

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