Antoine Le Moiturier

Meet Antoine Le Moiturier, the 15th-century French sculptor who basically cornered the market on high-end, funereal art. Hailing from a family of sculptors, he was the guy you called to carve exquisitely sorrowful figures for fancy tombs. His big break was completing the famous "Mourners of Dijon" after the original artist bailed. Now, for the gossip. It's whispered that Le Moiturier, despite his gloomy subject matter, was a notorious prankster who found sculpting weeping figures to be the height of comedy. Rumor also has it that to achieve such realistic expressions of grief on his sculptures, he would simply show the commissioners his invoice. While these tales are of dubious veracity, they certainly chisel a more amusing image of the master of mourning.