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Renaissance.Art 🎩🎨
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♦️Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon♦️ 👨🎨By: Ligier Richier 📚The tomb consists of an altarpiece and a limestone statue of a putrefied and skinless corpse which stands upright and extends his left hand outwards. It was commissioned as the resting place of René of Chalon, Prince of Orange, son-in-law of Duke Antoine of Lorraine. René was killed aged 25 at the siege of St. Dizier on 15 July 1544, from a wound sustained in battle the previous day. Richier presents him as an écorché, with his skin and muscles decayed, leaving him reduced to a skeleton. His left arm is raised as if gesturing towards heaven. The gesture may be in reference to the biblical passage from Job 19:26: “And though after my skin, worms destroy my body, yet in my flesh shall I see God”. The figure in general has been described as a “rotting corpse with shredded muscles falling from the bones and skin hanging in flaps over a hollow carcass”
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Hanzu Ha5ashi
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Ligier Richier's depiction of René of Chalon as a decaying écorché powerfully illustrates the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. His upward gesture suggests a hopeful connection to the divine despite physical decay.
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