Tomb effigy
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tomb-effigy-184-12380328
title:
Tomb effigy
text:
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 shortly after death. Such funerary and commemorative reliefs were first developed in Ancient Egyptian and Etruscan cultures, and appear most frequently in Western European tombs from the late 11th century, in a style that continued in use through the Renaissance and early modern period, and is still somet
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description:
Statue on top of a tomb
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_effigy
date created:
2010-07-30T18:59:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T20:40:15Z
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