{"title":"Sluter's \"Pleurants\" and Timanthes' \"Tristitia Velata\": Evolution of, and Sources for a Humanist Topos of Mourning","authors":"J. Moffitt","doi":"10.2307/1483776","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Claus Sluter (c. 1360-1406) is now celebrated as the Netherlandish sculptor who introduced both \"naturalism\" and \"compassion\" into post-medieval art. Focusing on his Tomb of Philip the Bold (mostly executed between 1404 and 1406), this study examines a particular motif: Sluter's \"pleurants\", or grief-stricken mourners with veiled faces. In this case, the motif - originally called \"Tristia velata\" - is shown to have been a commonplace in classical-era texts, so revealing the \"humanistic\" sources of Sluter's art. The \"veiled grief\" topos is also traced in Renaissance texts based on the same classical-literary legacy.","PeriodicalId":43492,"journal":{"name":"Artibus et Historiae","volume":"26 1","pages":"73-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/1483776","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Artibus et Historiae","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1483776","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Claus Sluter (c. 1360-1406) is now celebrated as the Netherlandish sculptor who introduced both "naturalism" and "compassion" into post-medieval art. Focusing on his Tomb of Philip the Bold (mostly executed between 1404 and 1406), this study examines a particular motif: Sluter's "pleurants", or grief-stricken mourners with veiled faces. In this case, the motif - originally called "Tristia velata" - is shown to have been a commonplace in classical-era texts, so revealing the "humanistic" sources of Sluter's art. The "veiled grief" topos is also traced in Renaissance texts based on the same classical-literary legacy.
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Artibus et Historiae is a journal dedicated to the visual arts, published by IRSA Publishing House. The lavishly illustrated articles cover a broad range of subjects, including photography and film, as well as traditional topics of scholarly art research. Artibus et Historiae particularly encourages interdisciplinary studies - art history in conjunction with other humanistic fields, such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, or literature - and unconventional approaches. Thus it is hoped that the current trends in art history will be well represented in our issues. Artibus et Historiae appears twice a year, in hardback. The articles are in one of four languages: English, Italian, German, or French, at the author"s discretion.
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