Lembrar aos vivos de seus mortos e de sua mortalidade: Transi Tombs na Inglaterra e seu duplo desígnio memorial no século XV.

Abstract

A Transi Tomb is a funerary monument of the Late Middle Ages, which has a decumbent effigy of a person in a stage of decomposition. A relatively common iconographic theme in the 15th century, it’s consisted of the macabre theme of art, which covered the illumination of manuscripts, parietal paintings, sculptures with the most varied uses, and poetry and literature. We have two basic variants of Transi Tombs: one that has only the cadaveric effigy, and another that brings a traditional effigy with all the elements of the patron's political life. In our dissertation, we analyze this funerary style through the study of eleven English transi tombs. Our source bank is made up of tombs of clergymen, nobles and merchants. Our research is guided by the concepts of memoriabild and sociotransmitter, and we studied the tombs within their historical context, surveying their iconography and materiality, through Panofsky and the concepts of image-body and site-specific, to understand the memorial issues that involved the formation of these monuments.