Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 581
even down to the time of Henry II.,with the halberd and the helmet worn only by the ancient order ofchivalry. Funeral sculpture had its conventional and traditional rules,like all other arts in the Middle Ages. Archaeologists have endeavoured to discover the meaning of the recum-bent figures—some… … Fig. 357.—Tomb erected in the Church of the Dominicans, at Puy-en-Velay, to the memory ofDu Guesclin, by Marshal de Sancerre, his friend.—This tomb dates from the close of theFourteenth Century. upon the top of the tomb the body of the deceased, either bent double or ina sitting position, or…
Middle Ages · Civilization, Medieval · Civilization, Renaissance · Costume · Military art and science · Christian life
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