The Arundel Tomb, Chichester, Henry Yevele, c.1376.

The so-called “Arundel Tomb” depicts in marble (once painted) the knight Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, and his second wife, Eleanor of Lancaster. She died in 1372, he in 1376. While their joined hands, both ungloved to show intimacy, are highly unusual, they are not 100% unprecedented. Eleanor’s crossed legs, turning her towards him, are. In his will, FitzAlan stated that he wanted them buried together “without pomp.” The renowned British poet Philip Larkin wrote a famous poem on the pair, which ends: “…The stone fidelity/They hardly meant has come to be/Their final blazon, and to prove/Our almost-instinct almost true:/What will survive of us is love.” The last line is often quoted.