Tomb of Cardinal de Braye (detail)
by ARNOLFO DI CAMBIO, Marble, height 63 cm
The effigy of the deceased lies, with eyes closed and hands crossed, on a splendid bed set on top the actual sarcophagus and enclosed in a kind of tabernacle. Two acolytes, clerics in lower orders, are drawing back the curtains to reveal the recumbent figure.