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Original title: Transi de Guillaume Lefranchois ("Transi of Guillaume Lefranchois").

This statue is a representation of "memento mori" or "transi". These monuments represent a deceased person in the form of a skeleton. In this representation, the…

Tomb of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany in the Basilica of St. Denis, Saint-Denis, France. "Inside the mausoleum,the royal couple are portrayed transfixed and motionless in death. On their abdomens are depicted, for the sake of realism, the sewn-up…

The tomb has two tiers: On the upper tier, John Golafre is represented in flesh and bones and covered by armor. On the lower tier though, he is represented as a skeleton lying on a shroud.

Tomb of Alice de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk, at St. Mary's Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire. The tomb has two sections: in the top section (left image) the duchess is lying fully dressed with a crown. In the bottom section (right image), the skeleton of…

"Several legends were told about the striking transi of François de Sarrà in La Sarraz, Switzerland. One legend stated that he died a violent death while hunting and fell into a lake. When he was found much later by his family he was covered with…

The cover of this edition depicts many skeletons and skulls. The three panels that appear at the bottom of the illustration represent: on the left panel two skeletons, a kid and an old man, on the central panel, a group of men studying the dead body…

Emblem with the following inscription in Latin, from Glasgow University Library: SM689http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/french/emblem.php?id=FLPb008Archived…

Original title: De overwinning van de Schilderkunst over de Dood ("The Victory of Painting over Death").The painting depicts a room. In the center of the room, a young woman with her mouth covered is painting a tower. To her right, another young…

"Three living princes, on the left, encounter three corpses, on the right. Below is a Middle French poem describing the encounter." (Description from the British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts…

Detail of a miniature of the Three Living and the Three Dead at the beginning of the Office of the Dead, from the Hours of Joanna I of Castile, southern Netherlands (Ghent?), c. 1500,Add MS 35313, f. 158v. This miniature may be a copy of a similar…