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Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [1] There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead person or not, often ...
Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the first American colonies, and their descendants. Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1 ...
Mourning portraits. 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. These were not rare in European homes of well-to-do people as a way of remembering and honoring the dead. People were generally laid out in their best clothes ...
Roman funerary practices include the Ancient Romans ' religious rituals concerning funerals, cremations, and burials. They were part of time-hallowed tradition (Latin: mos maiorum), the unwritten code from which Romans derived their social norms. [1] Elite funeral rites, especially processions and public eulogies, gave the family opportunity to ...
Mummy portrait of a young woman, Antinoöpolis, Middle Egypt, 2nd century, Louvre, Paris. This heavily gilt portrait was found in Antinoöpolis in winter 1905/06 by French Archaeologist Alfred Gayet and sold to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin in 1907. Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden ...
Korean tomb mound of King Sejong the Great, d. 1450. Türbe of Roxelana (d. 1558), Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul. Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term encompasses a wide variety of forms, including cenotaphs ("empty tombs"), tomb-like monuments which do not contain human ...
December 24, 2023 at 11:00 AM. Remembering the Funeral of The Queen MotherMirrorpix - Getty Images. The royal family has boasted some very long-lived members—Prince Philip passed away barely two ...
Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices. The lying in state of a body (prothesis) attended by family members, with the women ritually tearing their hair, depicted on a terracotta pinax by the Gela Painter, latter 6th century BC. Ancient Greek funerary practices are attested widely in literature, the archaeological record, and in ancient ...