Michel Colombe

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Michel Colombe (ca 1430 – ca 1513) was a French sculptor whose work bridged the late Gothic and Renaissance styles.

Born in Bourges into a family of artisans, he was active in Tours. Colombe's surviving works all date from his old age. He created the gisant figures of the two deceased children of Charles VIII of France on their tomb (1506) in Tours Cathedral. However, his most important suviving works were for the magnificent tomb for Francis II, Duke of Brittany, in Nantes Cathedral (1502-07), and for the mausoleum of Philibert II of Savoy, at Notre-Dame de Brou, his masterwork.

The Francis II monument was designed by Jean Perréal; it was disassembled and buried for safekeeping during the French Revolution.^[1]

An Entombment at the Abbey of Solesmes (1494-98) is attributed to him. A bas-relief commissioned in 1508 by Georges d'Amboise for the Château de Gaillon is conserved in the Musée du Louvre.

His nephew Guillaume Regnault appears to have trained in his atelier.

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• Bazin, Germain (1968). The History of World Sculpture. n.p.: Lamplight. OCLC 1474245
• (French) (Nantes Cathedral) Le tombeau de François II