Tomb of the Dukes of Orleans (detail)

In 1502 Louis XII commissioned a tomb in honour of his ancestors the Dukes of Orl�ans from Viscardi and Michele d’Aria in association with the Florentines Donato Benti and Benedetto da Rovezzano. The marble monument, now in the abbey church of Saint-Denis, was originally set up in 1504 in the Celestine Church (destroyed), Paris; it combines a typically Italianate base in the form of a sarcophagus surrounded by small statues of apostles in niches with a more French style for the four reclining figures of Louis, Duke of Orl�ans (1372-1407), his wife Valentina Visconti (1366-1408) and two of their sons, Charles, Duke of Orl�ans (139-–1465) and Philippe, Comte de Vertus (1396-1420).