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Easter Aquorthies stone circle showing the recumbent stone and two flankers. The particular characteristic of recumbent stone circles is that, as well as being a ring of upright stones , they have a large stone lying on its side along the perimeter of the circle towards south to southwest. On both sides are particularly tall orthostats.
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Medieval life-size recumbent effigies were first used for tombs of royalty and senior clerics, before spreading to the nobility. A particular type of late medieval effigy was the transi, or cadaver monument, in which the effigy is in the macabre form of a decomposing corpse, or such a figure lies on a lower level, beneath a more conventional effigy
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Recumbent may refer to: Recumbence, the act or state of lying down or leaning; Recumbent bicycle, a bicycle, tricycle or quadricycle which places the rider in a reclined or supine position; Recumbent effigy, a tomb sculpture of the deceased; Recumbent stone circles, a variation on the more familiar standard stone circles found throughout the UK
Recumbent Figure 1938 (LH191) [1] is an early sculpture by Henry Moore. It was commissioned by the architect Serge Chermayeff for his modernist villa at Bentley Wood , near Halland , Sussex . At the time it was made, it was Moore's largest stone sculpture.
The region was then part of the Duchy of Burgundy and his father, Jacques, was an adviser and senior official to Duke Philip the Good. [4] [5] Pot was raised and educated at the Burgundian court. He was a scholar and bibliophile. [4] He served during the politically fraught years of the last two Valois dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Good (r.
A recumbent effigy of the prince wearing a Hussar uniform lies above the tomb. Kneeling over him is an angel, holding a heavenly crown. The tomb is surrounded by an elaborate railing, with figures of saints. [19] The perfectionist Gilbert spent too much time and money on the commission. [2]