Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach

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Exploring Art A Global, Thematic Approach

• Chapter 9
• Mortality and Immortality

• Ancient burials
• Furnished tombs
• Development of cemeteries and grave monuments
  Christian burials Islamic mausoleums.
• Reliquaries
• Modern commemorative art cemeteries memorial
  art and practices

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Connecting Art and History 500 BCE-500CE
This image is to give you an idea of what the
scale of this statue was.
Fig. 9.2
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Ancient Burials
Fig. 9.4 Right wooden boat found near one of the
pyramids.
Fig. 9.3
left interior of fig. 9.3 right interior on the
morning of the winter solstice
Above aerial view of fig. 9.3
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Furnished Tombs Ancient Egyptian
Above, above left and left images of what was
found in King Tuts tomb. Below left the
exterior of King Tuts tomb.
Fig. 9.7
Fig. 9.5
Fig. 9.6
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Fig. 9.9
Furnished Tombs Etruscan
Above left city of Cerveteri. above and below
interior of a tomb at Cerveteri
Fig. 9.8 and to the right a detail
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Funeral Complex Shi Huangdi
Above Musician Remaining images are examples of
the figures found guarding the tomb of the emperor
Similar to fig. 9.10 Below figures still buried.
Fig. 9.11 (detail)
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Fig. 9.12 and detail
Moche Royal Tombs and Viking Burial Ships
Fig. 9.13
Fig. 9.14 and detail
Right example of interlocking design
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Cemeteries and Grave Monuments
Fig. 9.16
Fig. 9.15
Above right Kouros Marble, c. 60o BCE Right
Krater from the Dipylon cemetery, c. 740 BCE
Above Sarcophagus relief for a Roman general c.
170
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Burial in Places of Worship
Fig. 9.17
Above Interior of a catacomb Left image of
Christ as the Good Shepherd (similar to the one
in fig. 9.17)
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Burial in Places of Worship
Pantheon, Rome c. 118-125
St. Peters Cathedral 16th century
Fig. 9.19 Below close-up of ceiling
Fig. 9.18 with detail images
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Fig. 9.20below detail
Islamic Mausoleums
Influences above Persian garden. Right Dome of
fig. 8.41
Tomb of Ismael Samani , c. 850 CE Uzbekistan
Arial view of fig. 9.20
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Fig. 9.22
Reliquaries
Reliquary of Saint Foy (Faith) Gold, silver, wood
and precious stones, c. 980
Fig. 9.21
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Modern Commemorative Art
Above an example of an Italian cemetery
Fig. 9.23 To the right and below Roman and
Egyptian influenced monuments
Fig. 9.24
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Contemporary Memorial Art
Fig. 9.27
Fig. 9.25
Fig. 9.26
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Contemporary Memorial Art
Fig. 9.29
Fig. 9.30
Fig. 9.28