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Royal Birthdays for today, February 5th:
Sanjō, Emperor of Japan, 976
Philip II, Duke of Savoy, 1438
René of Châlon, Prince of Orange, 1519
Maria Elisabeth, Archduchess of Austria, 1737
Mary, Queen of Denmark, 1972
Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Prince of the Sa'id, 1979
Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia/Serbia, 1980
Arthur Chatto, Grandson of Princess Margaret, 1990
Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Crown Prince of Bhutan, 2016
#maria elisabeth of austria#queen mary#Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck#arthur chatto#prince peter#Muhammad Ali of Egypt#rene of chalon#philip ii#emperor sanjo#long live the queue#royal birthdays#Peter Karageorgevitch
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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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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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i find it funny that the vibes that i go for to get into "the mood" of a character involve the zach callison a picture perfect hollywood heartbreak album for cobalt but the cadaver tomb of rene of chalon and also artwork of st sebastian for tarum
and these two are from the same universe jsbgkjsdbgs
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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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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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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
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Transi tomb of Rene de Chalon, 1547, France
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Cadaver tomb of Rene de Chalon. Sculptor Ligier Richier, 1547.
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Royal Birthdays for today, February 5th:
Sanjō, Emperor of Japan, 976
Philip II, Duke of Savoy, 1438
René of Châlon, Prince of Orange, 1519
Maria Elisabeth, Archduchess of Austria, 1737
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, 1972
Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Prince of the Sa'id, 1979
Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia/Serbia, 1980
Arthur Chatto, Grandson of Princess Margaret, 1990
Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, Crown Prince of Bhutan, 2016
#crown princess mary#maria elisabeth of austria#Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck#arthur chatto#prince peter#Muhammad Ali of Egypt#rene of chalon#philip ii#emperor sanjo#royal birthdays#long live the queue
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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 :-)
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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
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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}
#pale aesthetic#dark aesthetic#goth aesthetic#alternative#art#sculpture#hellenistic#black aesthetic#white aesthetic#death#skull#skeletons#grave#tomb#grunge#goth#emo#the dying gaul#boxer at rest#the seated boxer#laucoon#ancient rome#ancient greece#galatian suicide#ludovisi gaul#allegory of time#kronos#the skeleton#prince or orange#the veiled christ
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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
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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.
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