Tomb

Monument to Edmund Verney - Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire

walwyn Mon, 11/02/2009 - 19:43

Baroque style monument to Edmund Varney (d1879).

Monument to Louis de Brézé - Rouen Cathedral

walwyn Tue, 09/06/2011 - 20:48

This monument to Louis de Brézé (d1531) is the work of Jean Goujon (1510-1572) who was commissioned by Diane de Poitiers, Louis wife. Louis was the son of King Charles VII of France's illegitimate daughter Charlotte de France.

Notre-Dame d'Amiens

walwyn Wed, 01/26/2011 - 00:23

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981 for the coherence of its plan, and the beauty of its three-tier interior elevation Notre-Dame d'Amiens, is the tallest completed Gothic church and largest cathedral in France. The Romanesque cathedral had been destroyed by fire in 1218, and Bishop Evrard de Fouilly employed Robert de Luzarches as the architect to build the new cathedral in the Gothic style to house the head of John the Baptist which had been bought back as a relic by Wallon de Sarton returning from Constantinople in 1206 after the 4th crusade.

Peyto Tomb - Chesterton, Warwickshire

walwyn Sun, 10/18/2009 - 16:05

Late C16 alabaster tomb, of Humfrey Peyto died 30 March 1585, and Anne his wife.

Prior Moore - Worcester Cathedral

walwyn Wed, 08/17/2011 - 21:23

Situated behind the main altar in Worcester cathedral this effigy is said be that of William Moore (1518-1536), the prior of the Benedictine Priory of St Mary's Worcester.

Raffaello Sanzio Morghen Tomb - Santa Croce Florence

walwyn Mon, 11/18/2019 - 20:22

Tomb of the Italian engraver Raffaello Sanzio Morghen (d1833) in Santa Croce Florence.

Richard Coeur-de-Lion - Rouen Cathedral, France

walwyn Sat, 09/18/2010 - 16:46

Tomb of Richard I of England (d1199). This is one of three tombs to Richard I, this one is said to contain his heart, his entrails were buried in Châlus (where he died), and the rest of his body was buried at the feet of his father, Henry II, at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou.

Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick

walwyn Mon, 09/05/2011 - 21:05

This is the tomb of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick. who died at Rouen on the 30th April 1439. His will made an endowment to the collegiate church of St Mary, Warwick, money to build the chantry chapel at St Mary's, and gifts to Tewkesbury Abbey.

Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester - Tewkesbury Abbey

walwyn Fri, 08/19/2011 - 20:02

This two storied tomb for Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester (d1421) was built in 1430 by his wife Lady Isabel le Despenser, the great grand-daughter of Edward III. It was probably meant to contain priant figures of both Richard, Isabel, and her second husband Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, who was her first husband's cousin.