The Burial of Diocrès
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The dead man speaks twice: from his coffin in church, then the next day here, as he is lowered into his grave. Wendy A. Stein, writing for the Met, tells how the Paris scholar Diocrès cried out that he had been accused in the fair judgment of God. The Met's commentary counts four groups around the grave, from chanting monks to five workmen at the coffin. Among the clerics at right, a man in blue raises his hands and leans back so far his face is foreshortened. Stein suggests he may be Bruno, who went on to found the Carthusians.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art of Illumination, folio 95r; read 2026-09-24 · Wendy A. Stein, 'Saint Bruno and the Founding of the Carthusian Order', The Art of Illumination blog, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14 April 2010; read 2026-09-24
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,639 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.