Cadaver tombs

Connected Sites: 5

A cadaver tomb or transi (or "memento mori tomb", Latin for "reminder of death") is a type of gisant (recumbent effigy tomb) featuring an effigy in the macabre form of a decomposing corpse. The topos was particularly characteristic of the later Middle Ages. (wiki)

Connected Sites

  • Canterbury
    Canterbury
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.41
    429
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    Canterbury Cathedral Houses The Well-Known Cadaver Monument To Henry Chichele, Archbishop Of Canterbury (1414-1443) (Wiki)
  • Vatican City
    Vatican City
    Holy See
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.30
    833
    9
    Saint Peter's Basilica Contains Yet Another [..], The Tomb Of Pope Innocent Iii. (Wiki)
  • Avignon
    Avignon
    France
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.63
    478
    9
    At The Petit Palais - Cardinal Jean De La Grange "This Transi Is One Of The Earliest Examples Of The Macabre Genre Current In Northern Europee At The End Of The Middle Age"
    See Fr.Wikipedia.Org
  • Rome
    Rome
    Holy See, Italy
    Inscribed: 1980
    4.57
    935
    13
    The Tomb Of Bishop Gonsalvi (1298) And That Of Cardinal Gonsalvo (1299) (Both Located At The Basilica Of Santa Maria Maggiore) (Wiki)
  • Amiens Cathedral
    Amiens Cathedral
    France
    Inscribed: 1981
    3.42
    281
    12
    Below The Funerary Monument Of Jean De Sachy, Death Is Represented In The Form Of A Decomposing Corpse Lying In A Shroud Suspended In The Shape Of A Hammock.
    See Fr.Wikipedia.Org