Tomb of Mary of Burgundy

Tomb of Mary of Burgundy
Material	Gilt-bronze, copper, brass, vitreous enamel
Size	Length: 260 cm (100 in) Width: 135 cm (53 in) Height: 135 cm (53 in)[1]
Created	Completed 1501
Period/culture	International Gothic, Northern Renaissance[2]
Present location	Church of Our Lady, Bruges

The Tomb of Mary of Burgundy is a funeral monument completed in 1501 for Mary of Burgundy's grave in the Church of Our Lady, Bruges. She died in March 1482, aged 25, following injuries sustained during a hunting accident a number of weeks earlier.

Mary was born in 1457 as the only child of Charles the Bold and Isabella of Bourbon. On her father's death at the Battle of Nancy, she became the last of the House of Valois-Burgundy and inherited the Duchy of Burgundy, making her the then-richest woman in Europe.^[3]

The tomb was commissioned by her husband Maximilian of Austria and their eldest child Philip the Fair, based on a rough design specified during her deathbed wishes. A number of sculptors, stonemasons and painters, perhaps headed by the Flemish sculptor Renier van Thienen, were involved in its creation; records suggest contributions by Jan Borman, Pieter de Backere and Jehan Hervy, although the chronology and the extent of their individual contributions is unknown.