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Our Lady of the Pillar, Portal, Chapel, Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon, Burgundy, France

Statue of Our Lady of the Pillar, with the Virgin gazing at the Christ child, by Claus Sluter, 1340-1405, from the portal of the Chapel at the Chartreuse de Champmol, a Carthusian monastery founded 1383 by Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy or Philippe le Hardi, duc de Bourgogne, in Dijon, Burgundy, France. The portal was originally designed by architect Drouet Dammartin, d. 1413, with sculptures by Jean de Marville, d. 1389, and was later redeveloped by Claus Sluter. The central statue is of Our Lady of the Pillar, and on the left, Philip the Bold kneeling before St John the Baptist, and on the right, his wife Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, before St Catherine of Alexandria. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Statue of Our Lady of the Pillar, with the Virgin gazing at the Christ child, by Claus Sluter, 1340-1405, from the portal of the Chapel at the Chartreuse de Champmol, a Carthusian monastery founded 1383 by Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy or Philippe le Hardi, duc de Bourgogne, in Dijon, Burgundy, France. The portal was originally designed by architect Drouet Dammartin, d. 1413, with sculptures by Jean de Marville, d. 1389, and was later redeveloped by Claus Sluter. The central statue is of Our Lady of the Pillar, and on the left, Philip the Bold kneeling before St John the Baptist, and on the right, his wife Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, before St Catherine of Alexandria. Picture by Manuel Cohen