Tomb of Charles of Durazzo
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tomb , angels , funeral , curtains , virtues
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The tomb of Charles of Durazzo (Duke of Durazzo and Count of Gravina, 1323-1348) sits in San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples and was originally in a chapel with an almost identical tomb, that of Giovanna of Durazzo and Roberto d'Artois. Both tombs have the same structure: virtues below supporting a sarcophagus which is ornamented with tondi with the dead Christ flanked by the mourning Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist. Above, an effigy (or, in the case of the other tomb, effigies) lays on top of the sarophagus beneath a kind of baldacchin, with angels drawing back curtains. Both impressive tombs are richly ornamented with carved fleurs di lis and must have originally been even more splendid when the forms and patterns were picked out in colours and gold. Photograph(s) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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San Lorenzo, Naples
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Raffaele Mormone, ed., Sculture trecentesche in S. Lorenzo Maggiore a Napoli (Naples: Società Editrice Napoletana, 1973), cat.XXVI, p. 42; Nicolas Bock; Kunst am Hofe der Anjou-Durazzo: Der Bildhauer Antonio Baboccio (1351-ca. 1423), pp. 130-41, cat. 16 pp. 453-4.