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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
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.
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
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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.
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