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‘But even as this fashion for magnificence was being established in England, something more restrained was being evolved in France where royal tombs were normally composed of alabaster effigies on black marble sarcophagi. Color was in general limited to costume detail, accoutrements, and heraldry. The best examples of this style also survive in England, one of them, in Westminster Abbey, to Queen Philippa of Hainault, actually designed and made c[irca] 1365-7 by the French court sculptor Jean Hennequin de Liege (fl[ourished] 1361-82). In the same tradition is the monument to Edward II (in Gloucester Cathedral; c[irca] 1330-5); but this has in addition a fantastic canopy which, apart from a few English derivations and some unexplained parallels at Avignon,* stands outside the canon of general European taste.

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*ie in Provence – where the Papal court moved (from Rome) in 1305 [/1309? until 1377].

**[– ibid (Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4: 605-607)]

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