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Philip The Bold
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Philip the Bold was renowned for his exceptional patronage of the arts, rivaling the Medicis centuries before their rise. He actively sought to establish a court culture in Dijon and Lille that reflected the wealth and sophistication of the burgeoning Burgundian territories, often at the expense of the French royal court at Paris, which he reportedly found aesthetically lacking in its use of primary colors.
His primary architectural achievement was the Chartreuse de Champmol ($1383$), a Carthusian monastery near Dijon intended as a dynastic mausoleum. The commission for the famous *Well …