Cadaver tombs
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)
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Avignon | 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" | |
| Canterbury | Canterbury Cathedral houses the well-known cadaver monument to Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury (1414-1443) (wiki) | |
| Rome | the tomb of Bishop Gonsalvi (1298) and that of Cardinal Gonsalvo (1299) (both located at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore) (wiki) | |
| Vatican City | Saint Peter's Basilica contains yet another [..], the tomb of Pope Innocent III. (wiki) |
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