John Wakeman
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John Wakeman was an English Benedictine, the last Abbot of Tewkesbury and first Bishop of Gloucester, both posts in the English county of Gloucestershire. In the earlier part of his life he went by th
The cadaver monument which Abbot Wakeman had erected for himself at Tewkesbury Abbey
Cadaver monument
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A cadaver monument or transi is a type of funerary monument to a deceased person, featuring a sculpted tomb effigy of a skeleton, or of an emaciated or decomposing dead body, with closed eyes. It was
Tomb effigy in the mausoleum of the Lords of Boussu, Boussu Castle, Belgium
Cadaver Tomb of Guillaume de Harsigny. Musée d'art et d'archéologie de Laon, France
"L'homme aux moulons" (man eaten by worms), a 16th-century cadaver monument in Boussu, Belgium
Cadaver monument of John Fitzalan, 7th Earl of Arundel (died 1435), Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, West Sussex, England