Fragments de cuivre et d'émaux retrouvés du tombeau de Roger de Brosse (+ 1287) à Prébenoît (Creuse).

  • François, Geneviève
Publication date
January 2008
Publisher
Pessac : Fédération Aquitania

Abstract

National audienceAt the end of the xiiith century, the workshops in the town Limoges (France, Limousin, Haute-Vienne), were specialized in the production of funeral monuments made of gilt and enamelled copper on a wooden core. Few of them have survived; only five, on the fifty checked by the Corpus des émaux méridionaux (UMR 8150 du CNRS), are preserved today. One of these enamelled effigies, those of the French knight Roger de Brosse (+ 1287) buried in the Cistercian abbey of Prébenoît (Creuse) in the Marche limousine, destroyed during the French Revolution, has been recently and partly rediscovered. Three enamelled fragments, with heraldic figures, preserved by chance from the destruction, have been detected in the public and private coll...

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