The effigy is a contrast to that of Cardinal Brancacci, where we have the unmistakable lineaments and fallen features of a corpse.
They are calm impersonal mourners--not shrouded like the bowed figures which bear the effigy of the Sénéchal of Burgundy.
The Cardinal's effigylies upon the stone coffin, the face of which has a bas-relief between heraldic shields.
The effigy itself is often perched up so high as to be invisible, or sitting in a ridiculous posture.
William the Lion is buried before the high altar, and in the chapter-house is the lid of his coffin in Scottish marble, with his headless figure, the only existing effigy of a Scottish king.
The effigy shown is that of an old man lying on his side, as though to signify that his unwavering and indomitable spirit had at last gained rest.
At Luchon, on the same anniversary, they throw snakes on a huge effigy of a Willow-tree made with branches of Willow; this is set on fire, and while it is burning the people dance around the tree.
From that day the mouse has been held sacred by the Japanese poor, and its effigy is found suspended in many of their houses as a fetish.
They have since perished, but the brothers were ennobled by the Elector as Lords of Linden, and bore the effigy of the marvellous trees on their escutcheon.
At that time the inhabitants still worshipped a Walnut-tree on which was to be distinguished the effigy of a viper, and beneath this tree the people performed many superstitious and heathenish rites.
All these rods are cut with a forked end, a shape held to be symbolic of lightning and a rude effigy of the human form.
The sheet lay over the motionless body like a thin covering of snow on the turnings of the earth; it defined her breasts and a hip as crisply as though they were cut in marble effigy on a tomb of youthful dissolution.
XVIII The stir and heat of Sim's presence died quickly away; the house was without a sound; General Jackson lay like an effigy in ravelled black and buff wool.
He saw beyond the lamp with its shade of minute, variously-colored silks the effigy of Mrs. Hollidew dead.
He imagined that paper effigyof inanimate clay moved, turned its dull head to regard him.
In Boston the stamp distributor was hanged in effigy; his windows were broken; a house intended for a stamp office was pulled down, and the effigy burnt in a bonfire made of the fragments.
The mutilated effigy bears a model of a church in his left hand, and this points to its being the monument to a founder.
On the south side of the choir the bracket tomb or monument, so called from the effigybeing placed on a corbel or projecting bracket, should be noted.
I am disposed to assign to the effigy a date not very remote from the period at which the duke lived.
It is to be hoped that at some future time the effigy may be moved back to its place in the Presbytery.
This nobleman was Prince of South Wales in the early part of the thirteenth century; and his monumental effigy is in the cathedral of St. David's.
Soon afterwards the woman heard something fall down the chimney, and looking out she saw a waxen effigy of her baby, stuck full of pins, lying on the hearth.
The tomb and effigy of the Prior of Wombridge, 1526, and some Elizabethan monuments are in the chancel.
The effigy of an Abbot in Episcopal robes, and probably dating from the fifteenth century, lies in the south transept.
The wooden effigy of George de Cantelupe in the Herbert Chapel (1273) is the finest example of early wood-carving extant in these islands.
Above the altar-tomb is a beautifully sculptured effigyof the King in alabaster, resting under a gorgeously elaborate canopy.
The parish church of St. Mary has no particular merits; in it is preserved a fourteenth-century effigy of one of the Vaughans, or Vychans, of Nannau.
The effigy in armour represents Howel Coetmore, who led a hundred Denbighshire men at Poitiers.
They have an effigy with an inscription containing an admonition against the exercise of charity without discrimination.
In the Frowyke Chapel, separated from the church by a Perpendicular parclose screen, is a well-preserved effigy of the Transition period and an interesting brass let in the floor.
The recumbenteffigy of Abbot Parker, last Abbot of Gloucester, should be noticed.
There is a stone effigy of Luther not far from the Cathedral, in memory of a tradition that the great reformer preached a sermon here on his journey to Worms.
The little Gothic chapel yonder is the tomb of Abelard, whose effigy lies upon the sarcophagus within, and beside it is that of Heloise.
Her memory, her children, and her descendants in the male line were declared infamous, her bones and effigy were burnt, and her property confiscated.
After the auto-da-fe, this figure was taken back to the Holy Office, and a common effigy was burnt with the bones of the condemned.
Fourteen persons were relaxed, the bones and effigy of a woman burnt, and sixteen individuals were admitted to reconciliation, with penances.
The effigy was that of Francis Zafra, the beneficed priest of the parish of St. Vincent of Seville, who was condemned as a Lutheran, but had made his escape.
Twenty-one persons were relaxed, with aneffigy of a contumacious person, and eighty persons condemned to penances, the greatest number of whom were Lutherans; I shall mention the most remarkable instances.
The Tory gentry employed roughs to burn Paine in effigy throughout the country, and to harry the Nonconformists.
The government of England honoured me with a thousand martyrdoms, by burning me in effigy in every town in that country, and their hirelings in America may do the same.
It should be added that this one dingy page is the only "survival" of the ancient Paine effigy in the tract form which I have been able to find in recent years, and to this no Society or Publisher's name is attached.
Hideyoshi determined to set up a still more imposing effigy in Kyoto, and, in 1586, the work was commenced under the superintendence of Maeda Gen-i.
Lapham published a great work on the effigymounds in 1855, in which he gave the results of many accurate surveys and described many interesting localities.
It is a case parallel to that of the old effigy builders, a people who have a passion for depicting animal forms--a passion not shared by their neighbors.
It seems to us that the effigy builders of Wisconsin were a peculiar tribe, unlike their mound-building neighbors in Ohio or the South; that they were a people with a passion for representing animal figures.
If this were the only evidence that the Winnebagoes built the effigy mounds, or that their ancestors did so, it would have no great weight.
The bird mound in the Newark circle is more like a Wisconsin effigy, but is associated with a type of works not found in the effigy region.
While Madame Potecki busied herself with some catalogue or other, the girl turned aside into a recess, to look at a cast of the effigy on the tomb of Queen Eleanor of Castile.
I suppose I had been listening to the talk of the gentlemen; for I said to him, 'When they burned my papa in effigy at Pesth, why was I not allowed to go and see?
On the south side of the nave there was formerly a recumbent wooden figure, in mail armour, supposed to have been the effigy of Anthony, the last Lord Lucy of Egremont, who died A.
And in Scotland the Renfrewshire witches were charged with roasting the effigy of a Rev.
The fact is they had burned me in effigy on the 5th and had so much enjoyed the ceremony that, when the original turned up, they really couldn't be civil to him, it would have been so very tame.
I'm told the effigy was such a fearful-looking monster that it frightened the bairnies out of their wits, specially as it was first carried all round the place on a parish coffin!
The symbolic markings and appendages of the Plumed Snake effigy are distinctive, and are found in all modern representations of this mystic being.
The eyes of the eager multitude wandered from the prisoner to the jury-box, and thence to the impassive parchment countenance of the old ermined effigy who presided at the harrowing scene, and not one ventured to speak above his breath.
With strange emotions the Neapolitan gazed upon the lifeless effigy from which the evil tenant had been so suddenly and fearfully called to its eternal and unseen abode.
The effigy of William Longsword, Rollo's son, is in another chapel of the nave, that adjoining the north transept.
I was never asleep; and in whatsoever unreasonable direction my mind rambled, the effigyof Master Richard Watts perpetually embarrassed it.
Therefore, after looking for awhile at the spiral column of smoke wreathing up from my brown beauty, through which I could have almost sworn I saw the effigy of Master Richard Watts less startled than usual, I fired away.
Beside the knight's statue lies a truncated effigy supposed to represent his son, whom, in a fit of rage, he cut in two with a single stroke of his sword for cowardice on the battle-field.
