The chapel was host to a portrait of Christ seated on a throne and covered in blood: this image had been presented to Philip the Good by Pope Eugene IV in 1433.

[4] The façade of the chapel was decorated by Claus Sluter, who created a sculpture of John the Evangelist, in stone from Asnières-lès-Dijon, 2.6 metres (8 ft 6 in) high, with a shield bearing the arms of Burgundy.

[7] The Tour de Philippe le Bon (Tower of Philip the Good) was erected on the west side of the Ducal Palace and completed in 1455.

[3] The palace was turned into a royal residence when the Duchy of Burgundy was occupied by the Kingdom of France after the death of Charles the Bold, in 1477, and the treaty of Arras of 1482 between King Louis XI and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.

The sections on the east and west of the courtyard were fronted by tetrastyle porticos formed by Doric order columns supporting pediments with fine carvings in the tympanum.

An equestrian statue created in bronze by Étienne Le Hongre depicting Louis XIV was unveiled in the centre of the square on 15 April 1725.

Following the French Revolution, the palace was renamed the "Maison Nationale" by the revolutionaries and the statue of Louis XIV was torn down and destroyed on 15 August 1792.

[19] Following the demolition of the Chartreuse de Champmol, two restored ducal tombs were installed in the Salle des Gardes in 1827, helping to underline the status of Dijon and its palace as the regional capital.