{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.cadaver-tomb","code":"thing-q1567423","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1567423/","name":"cadaver tomb","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.BLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A funerary monument of late medieval and early modern Europe that depicts the deceased as a decaying corpse or skeleton, often beneath an effigy shown in life on a two-tier tomb, also called a transi tomb, expressing the memento mori theme and found in cathedrals and churches of England, France and Germany, with the tradition dating from the 14th century; cadaver tombs are studied in art history and the history of death.","purpose":"Let an agent explain cadaver tombs and their meaning, relay history, examples and iconography 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did the imagery continue in Baroque monuments and vanitas art?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits vanitas?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"study","name":"Study","description":"Study.","findings":[{"id":"study-finding","name":"Study","description":"Study.","questions":[{"text":"How are cadaver tombs studied and conserved?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits the history of death?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe cadaver tombs, their imagery and their place in memento mori art from art history sources.","Identify a monument's date, location and commissioner from church and museum records."],"mustNot":["Sensationalise the imagery of decay for shock or entertainment.","Confuse cadaver tombs with ossuaries or later reproductions.","Damage, touch or remove parts of a tomb or its effigies.","Disturb human remains associated with a tomb."],"requiresHuman":["Photographing or publishing images of a tomb in an active place of worship against its custodians' rules.","Any conservation work on a monument."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Cadaver tombs are graves and memorials that call for respect.","They sit in churches that remain places of worship for living communities."],"affectedParties":["The church community","Descendants of the deceased","Visitors"]},"owners":{"steward":"The church or institution that keeps the monument; heritage authorities protect listed tombs.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["National heritage listing registers"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q56055312","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"sepulchral monument","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"memento mori","type":"related","note":"the reminder of death"},{"target":"tomb of Henry Chichele","type":"related","note":"in Canterbury Cathedral"},{"target":"effigy","type":"related","note":"showing the living figure"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: 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