Cadaver tombs

Connected Sites: 5

Definition
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)

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  • Canterbury
    Canterbury
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.41
    316
    13
    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
    613
    9
    Saint Peter's Basilica contains yet another [..], the tomb of Pope Innocent III. (wiki)
  • Rome
    Rome
    Holy See, Italy
    Inscribed: 1980
    4.57
    662
    13
    the tomb of Bishop Gonsalvi (1298) and that of Cardinal Gonsalvo (1299) (both located at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore) (wiki)
  • Avignon
    Avignon
    France
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.63
    359
    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
  • Amiens Cathedral
    Amiens Cathedral
    France
    Inscribed: 1981
    3.41
    221
    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