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  2. Veneration of the dead - Wikipedia

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    Filipino Catholic and Aglipayan veneration of the dead finds its greatest expression in the Philippines is the Hallowmas season between 31 October and 2 November, variously called Undás (based on the word for "[the] first", the Spanish andas or possibly honra), Todos los Santos (literally "All Saints"), and sometimes Áraw ng mga Patáy (lit.

  3. Miracles of St. Francis Xavier (Rubens) - Wikipedia

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    The art piece has figures that have postures similar to the male figure in this painting. [2] It is theorized that the male figure in the lower left corner of the altarpiece is to have been a victim of the plague. [2] It is suggested that the male figure's posture has been referenced from other paintings that depict the plague. [2]

  4. Pietà - Wikipedia

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    It is a variant of the Man of Sorrows (Imago Pietatis) type of andachtsbilder, but showing a Christ who is clearly dead (in Man of Sorrows images he tends to have his eyes open). Typically the half-length body of the dead Christ sits on a ledge, held up by smaller angels at each side. Christ is naked down to a loin-cloth and his wounds are visible.

  5. Lamentation of Christ (Mantegna) - Wikipedia

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    The painting is another mirror to the Middle Ages inscriptions on images related to a Christ on the cross or the Passion of the Lord that would say, “Aspice qui transis, quia tu mihi causa doloris (look here, you who are passing by, for you are the cause of my pain).” [15] In addition to being in front of his open injuries, the fabric ...

  6. The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin Mary and St John the ...

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    The paintings dates to the period where Bellini began to outgrow the artistic influence of Andrea Mantegna, his brother-in-law.Via the Sampieri collection in Bologna (catalogue no. 454), it entered Brera in 1811 as a gift from the viceroy of the Eugene de Beauharnais's Kingdom of Italy.It was placed in the corridor of Venetian Renaissance paintings that leads into the room set up by Ermanno ...

  7. Mourning portraits - Wikipedia

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    Mourning portrait of K. Horvath-Stansith, née Kiss, artist unknown, 1680s A Child of the Honigh Family on its Deathbed, by an unknown painter, 1675-1700. A mourning portrait or deathbed portrait is a portrait of a person who has recently died, usually shown on their deathbed, or lying in repose, displayed for mourners.

  8. Roman funerary art - Wikipedia

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    Images of Meleager, the host of the Calydonian Boar hunt, being mourned by Atalanta, as well as images of Achilles mourning Patroclus were very common on sarcophagi that acted as grieving aids. In both cases, the mythological scenes were akin to mourning practices of ordinary Roman citizens in an effort to reflect their grief and comfort them ...

  9. Category:Paintings about death - Wikipedia

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    The Dead Abel; The Dead Christ with Angels; Dead Eagle Owl; Dead Frog with Flies; The Dead Lovers; The Dead Man (Manet) Death and Fire; Death and Life; Death and the Maiden (Baldung) Death and the Maiden (Schiele) Death and the Miser; The Death of Actaeon; The Death of Adonis (Rubens) The Death of Balder; The Death of Captain James Cook (Zoffany)