Tomb effigy
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A tomb effigy is a sculpted effigy of a deceased person usually shown lying recumbent on a rectangular slab, presented in full ceremonial dress or wrapped in a shroud, and shown either dying or shortl
Effigies of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. Germain Pilon, c. 1561–1573. Basilica of Saint-Denis, France.
Double tomb of Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart) and Isabella of Angoulême. Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou, France.
Coffin of Neskhons, c. 945-715 BC, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Mask of Sitdjehuti; c. 1500 BC; linen, plaster, gold and paint. British Museum.
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
…were first used for tombs of royalty and senior clerics, before spreading to the nobility. A particular type of late medieval effigy was the transi, or cadaver monument, in which the effigy is in the macabre form of a decomposing corpse, or such a figure lies on a lower level, beneath a more conventional effigy. Mourning…
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