cadaver tomb
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The church is noted for the founder's cadaver tomb.

The abbey church contains some fine examples of cadaver tombs.

The cadaver tomb consists of a sarcophagus on which lies a skeleton.

France also has a long history of cadaver tombs, though not as many examples or varieties survive as in England.

Winchester Cathedral also has two cadaver tombs.

Cave's sarcophagus is a cadaver tomb.

He was buried in a cadaver tomb in Saint Denis Basilica.

The cadaver tomb below carries the epigram: "I was once what you are, and what I am you will become".

Perhaps the most striking to contemporary minds is the transi, or cadaver tomb, a tomb that depicts the decayed corpse of the deceased.

Cadaver tombs were a departure, in monumental architecture, from the usual practice of showing an effigy of the person as they were in life.

His memorial was originally a cadaver tomb, with the bishop in full episcopal attire above an enclosure containing a sculpture of a cadaver or skeleton.

A particular type of gisant was the transi, or cadaver tomb, in which the effigy is in the macabre form of a decomposing corpse.

However, the term 'cadaver tomb' can really be applied to other varieties of monuments, e.g. with skeletons or with the deceased completely wrapped in a shroud.

Following his death in 1392, Harsigny was buried in a tomb at Laon which featured one of the earliest examples of medieval cadaver tomb sculpture.

He is buried in Canterbury Cathedral, in a "cadaver tomb" between the upper choir and the choir ambulatory adjacent to the north-east transept.

In the 20th century, the cadaver tomb portion of the work was rediscovered still in situ, and the two halves were re-united in their original location in 1952.

She is buried in an elaborate church monument incorporating a Cadaver tomb at St Mary's Parish Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire.

It is unclear from available sources whether the lower section of the fresco, the cadaver tomb, remained unknown or was deliberately omitted (and possibly plastered over) during the 1860s construction work.

The lower section, depicting a memento mori, in the form of a cadaver tomb, has also lost significant paint; but the restoration work there has been more restrained and less extensive.

While abbot of Tewkesbury, Wakeman constructed a cadaver tomb cenotaph in Tewkesbury Abbey, on the north-east side of the high altar, which is still to be seen.

He suffered terribly, and, despite the efforts of royal surgeon Ambroise Paré, died on July 10, 1559 and was buried in a cadaver tomb in Saint Denis Basilica.

Two sites are identified as his tomb: a monument in Amiens Cathedral, and his actual tomb in Avignon, which is an early example of a transi or cadaver tomb.

The stone cadaver from his cadaver tomb is in the chancel, with a Purbeck marble canopy donated in 1853 by Oriel College, Oxford, where he had been Provost.

Decayed cadavers can also be used to depict death; in medieval Europe, they were often featured in artistic depictions of the danse macabre, or in cadaver tombs which depicted the living and decomposed body of the person entombed.

One of the statues is a copy of a cadaver tomb by René de Chalon which can be seen in the Saint-Étienne church in Bar-le-Duc, and was reused in the 2009 Mylène Farmer en tournée tour.

The Big Blue was a Lampson Transi heavylift crane.

Possibly his most renowned work is "Le Transi de René de Chalon" in l'église Saint-Étienne of Bar-le-Duc.

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