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    A long passage leads the visitor from the seven-pointed star to the final section of the exhibition. On both walls are Jacques Francquart’s engravings from the Pompa funebris of Albert.

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The following objects evoke the death of the Archduke: the anonymous Painting with bust of the corpse of Albert in Franciscan habit (Madrid, Descalzas Reales), the anonymous Wake by the mortal remains of the Archduke Albert (Brussels, Museum van het Broodhuis), Two fragments of a piece of cloth from the tomb of Albert (Brussels, Sint-Michielskathedraal), the Coat of arms of Albert’s King of Arms (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum) and the funeral orations of Bernard de Montgaillard, Le Soleil éclipsé, of Johannes a Wouwer, Panegyricus Austriae (Madrid, Real Biblioteca), and of Jean–Jacques Chifflet, Lacrymae prisco ritu fusae in exsequiis sereniss. ...(Madrid: Real Biblioteca). Aubertus Miraeus’ elegy De vita Alberti Pii, Sapientis, Prudentis belgarum principis ends this section.

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