Tomb Of Geoffrey Chaucer, Westminster Abbey
1904
negative, gelatin on glass
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The tomb of Francis II, Duke of Brittany is a monument located in Nantes, in the Cathedral of St. Peter.
The project was commissioned by Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, who was the daughter of Francis and his second wife Margaret of Foix, who is also depicted beside Francis.
Carved by Jean de la Huerta and Antoine le Moiturier between 1443 and 1456/57, the unique devotional figures, known as “mourners,” were commissioned for the elaborate tomb of the second duke of Burgundy. Crafted with astonishing detail, the alabaster sculptures exemplify some of the most important artistic innovations of the late Middle Ages.
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Alabaster mourner figures from the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria.
Each of the statuettes is approximately sixteen inches high. They were carved by Jean de La Huerta and Antoine Le Moiturier between 1443–1456 for the ducal tomb.
Visit a special website created by FRAME to preview all the mourners (360 degree and 3D available!)
Edward II tomb, Gloucester Cathedral
This elaborate tomb was set up by his son which attracted pilgrims from far and wide.
Source: shafe.co.uk
The bones of Abelard and Heloise were moved more than once, but they were preserved even through the vicissitudes of the French Revolution, and now are presumed to lie in the well-known tomb in the cemetery of Père Lachaise in eastern Paris. The transfer of their remains there in 1817 is considered to have considerably contributed to the popularity of that cemetery, at the time still far outside the built-up area of Paris. By tradition, lovers or lovelorn singles leave letters at the crypt, in tribute to the couple or in hope of finding true love.
There is dissent as to their actual resting place. The Oratory of the Paraclete claims Abélard and Héloïse are buried on their site and that what exists in Père-Lachaise is merely a monument, or cenotaph. According to Père-Lachaise, the remains of both lovers were transferred from the Oratory in the early 19th century and reburied in the famous crypt on their grounds. There are still others who believe that while Abelard is buried in the tomb at Père-Lachaise, Heloïse’s remains are elsewhere.
The tomb of Abelard and Heloise in the Cimetière du Père Lachaise in Paris
A Swedish real estate agent has an unusual piece of property up for sale: a five-bedroom house, complete with medieval tomb and skeleton in the cellar.
The central Visby town house on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland was built in 1750 on the foundations of a Russian church. The kitchen lies on the presbytery, and the tomb containing the skeleton — visible through a glass panel — is in the cellar.
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Saint Denis Basilica - (From left clockwise) Gisants Bertrand du Guesclin,Charles VI, Isabeau of Bavaria, Louis de Sancerre, Charles V, Jeanne de Bourbon
Bruni’s most notable work is History of the Florentine People, which has been called the first modern history book. Bruni was the first historian to write using the three-period view of history: Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Modern. The dates Bruni used to define the periods are not exactly what modern historians use today, but he laid the conceptual groundwork for a tripartite division of history. While it probably was not Bruni’s intention to secularize history, the three period view of history is unquestionably secular and for that Bruni has been called the first modern historian.
image: Tomb of Leonardo Bruni 1444 - 1447
Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
Beneath Masaccio’s fresco of the Trinity painted in 1425-28 in Santa Maria Novella, Florence, is a painted representation of a cadaver tomb.
A cadaver tomb or transi (or “memento mori tomb”, Latin for “reminder of death”) is a church monument or tomb featuring an effigy in the macabre form of a decomposing corpse. The topos was particularly characteristic of the later Middle Ages.
A depiction of a rotting cadaver in art (as opposed to a skeleton) is called a transi. In the “double-decker” tombs, in Erwin Panofsky’s phrase, a carved stone bier displays on the top level the recumbent effigy or gisant of a person as they were before death or soon after their death, where they may be life-sized and sometimes represented kneeling in prayer, and as a rotting cadaver on the bottom level, often shrouded and sometimes complete with worms and other flesh-eating wildlife.
image: Free-standing cadaver tomb of John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (died 1435)
Tomb of the poet and recorder of the discoveries, Luís de Camões. Church of Santa Maria - Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon.
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(not quite medieval, but look at it…)
Meister der Heimsuchung (1230)
Tomb of Pope Clemens II (1005 - 1047; Pope 1046 - 7)
Bamberg Cathedral, Bamberg
