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Sepulchral monuments. --- Documentary photography. --- Death in art. --- Death in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Death --- Photography, Documentary --- Photography --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments
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Cemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large.
Cemeteries - United States. --- Cemeteries -- United States. --- Epitaphs - United States. --- Epitaphs -- United States. --- Sepulchral monuments - United States. --- Sepulchral monuments -- United States. --- United States - Social life and customs. --- United States -- Social life and customs. --- Sepulchral monuments --- Cemeteries --- Epitaphs --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Manners & Customs --- United States --- Social life and customs. --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Biography --- Inscriptions --- Tombs --- Monuments
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An illustrated guide to the monumental and non-monumental final resting places of famous architects from Aalto Alvar to Frank Lloyd Wright. All working architects leave behind a string of monuments to themselves in the form of buildings they have designed. But what about the final spaces that architects themselves will occupy? Are architects' gravesites more monumental-more architectural-than others? This unique book provides an illustrated guide to more than 200 gravesites of famous architects, almost all of them in the United States. Led by our intrepid author, Henry Kuehn, we find that most graves of architects are not monumental but rather modest, that many architects did not design their final resting places, and that a surprising number had their ashes scattered. Architects' Gravesites offers an alphabetical listing, from Alvar Aalto and Dankmar Adler (Louis Sullivan's partner) to Frank Lloyd Wright and Minoru Yamasaki (designer of the Word Trade Center's twin towers). Each entry includes a brief note on the architect's career and a color photograph of the site. For example, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is buried in Chicago under a simple granite slab designed by his architect grandson; Louise Bethune, the first American woman to become a professional architect, is buried under a headstone inscribed only with her husband's name (a plaque honoring her achievements was installed later); Philip Johnson's ashes were spread in his rose garden, with no marker, across the street from his famous Glass House; and the grave of Pierre L'Enfant in Arlington National Cemetery offers a breathtaking view of Washington, D.C., the city he designed. Architects' Gravesites is an architectural guide like no other, revealing as much about mortality as about monumentality.
Architectes --- Monuments funéraires --- Sepulchral monuments --- Architects --- Tombes --- Tombs --- 726.82 --- Grafmonumenten ; graftombes ; Noord-Amerika --- 19de en 20ste eeuw --- Begraafplaatsen ; grafstenen en -monumenten ; van architecten --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Professional employees --- Religieuze architectuur ; grafmonumenten --- ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/General --- Monuments funéraires
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As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the "Wild West," cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together within the developing landscape of the Old West.
Pioneers --- Cemeteries --- Sepulchral monuments --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Burial grounds --- Burying-grounds --- Churchyards --- Graveyards --- Memorial gardens (Cemeteries) --- Memorial parks (Cemeteries) --- Memory gardens (Cemeteries) --- Necropoleis --- Necropoles --- Necropoli --- Necropolises --- Burial --- Death care industry --- History
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Evocative photographs and essay illuminate early American gravestones.
Sepulchral monuments --- Cemeteries --- Burial grounds --- Burying-grounds --- Churchyards --- Graves --- Graveyards --- Memorial gardens (Cemeteries) --- Memorial parks (Cemeteries) --- Memory gardens (Cemeteries) --- Necropoleis --- Necropoles --- Necropoli --- Necropolises --- Burial --- Death care industry --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- New England --- History
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"From an intercultural perspective, this book focuses on aesthetic strategies and forms of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic sepulchral art. Seeing the tomb as an interface for eschatological, political, and artistic debate, the contributions analyze the diversity of memorial space configurations from the 11th to the 17th centuries"--Back cover.
Sepulchral monuments, Medieval --- Islamic sepulchral monuments --- Muslim sepulchral monuments --- Sepulchral monuments, Islamic --- Sepulchral monuments --- Medieval sepulchral monuments --- Sepulchral monuments. --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Sepulchral monuments, Renaissance --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Art funéraire --- Cimetière --- Thanatologie --- Mort --- Islam --- Art islamique --- Art sacré --- Art chrétien --- Islamic sepulchral monuments. --- Sepulchral monuments, Medieval. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects.
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Located in the small kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Dağ (c.50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars. Qualified as a Greco-Persian hybrid instigated by a lunatic king, this fascinating project of bricolage has been written out of history. This volume redresses that imbalance, interpreting Nemrud Dağ as an attempt at canon building by Antiochos I in order to construct a dynastic ideology and social order, and proving the monument's importance for our understanding of a crucial transitional phase from Hellenistic to Roman. Hellenistic Commagene therefore holds a profound significance for a number of discussions, such as the functioning of the Hellenistic koine and the genesis of Roman 'art', Hellenism and Persianism in antiquity, dynastic propaganda and the power of images, Romanisation in the East, the contextualising of the Augustan cultural revolution, and the role of Greek culture in the Roman world.
Antiquities. --- Hellenism. --- Hellénisme --- Antiochus --- Middle East --- Turkey --- Nemrut Dagi Mound (Turkey) --- Commagene --- Nemrut Dagi (Turquie) --- Commagène --- Antiquités --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Tomb. --- Nemrut Dağı Mound (Turkey). --- Hellénisme --- Nemrut Dağı Mound (Turkey) --- Nemrut Daği (Turquie) --- Commagène --- Antiquités --- Mounds --- Tumulus --- Nemrut Dağı (Turquie) --- Religion --- Sepulchral monuments --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Kommagene --- Comagene --- Komagen --- Nemroudh Dagh Mound (Turkey) --- Nemrud Dağ Mound (Turkey) --- Nemrut Dağı Site (Turkey) --- Antiquities
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Nefesh (Hebreeuws woord) --- Nefesh (Mot hebreu) --- Nefesh (The Hebrew word) --- 393 <32> --- 221.08*8 --- 237 --- Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers--Oud-Egypte --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: relatie met de klassieke oudheid --- Leven van de toekomst --- 221.08*8 Theologie van het Oude Testament: relatie met de klassieke oudheid --- 393 <32> Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers--Oud-Egypte --- Future life --- Jewish epitaphs --- Pyramids --- Sepulchral monuments --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Archaeology --- Architecture, Ancient --- Tombs --- Hebrew language --- Epitaphs --- Judaism --- History --- Etymology --- Middle East --- Antiquities. --- To 1500 --- Palestine --- Antiquities --- Judaism. --- Middle East.
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The bleak steppe and rolling highlands of inner Anatolia were one of the most remote and underdeveloped parts of the Roman empire. Still today, for most historians of the Roman world, ancient Phrygia largely remains terra incognita. Yet thanks to a startling abundance of Greek and Latin inscriptions on stone, the cultural history of the villages and small towns of Roman Phrygia is known to us in vivid and unexpected detail. Few parts of the Mediterranean world offer so rich a body of evidence for rural society in the Roman Imperial and late antique periods, and for the flourishing of ancient Christianity within this landscape. The eleven essays in this book offer new perspectives on the remarkable culture, lifestyles, art and institutions of the Anatolian uplands in antiquity.
Romans --- Sepulchral monuments --- Sculpture, Phrygian --- Households --- Law --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Marble industry and trade --- Romains --- Monuments funéraires --- Sculpture phrygienne --- Ménages (Statistique) --- Droit --- Inscriptions latines --- Marbre --- Industrie --- Phrygia --- Phrygie --- History. --- Antiquities, Roman --- Histoire --- Antiquités romaines --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Monuments funéraires --- Ménages (Statistique) --- Antiquités romaines --- Phrygien --- History --- Civilization. --- Phrygian sculpture --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Marble quarrying --- Stone industry and trade --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Latin inscriptions --- Latin language --- Latin philology --- Population --- Families --- Home economics --- Arts and Humanities
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La colonie grecque d’Agathé, établie par les Phocéens de Marseille, déjà citée par des auteurs de l’Antiquité, a fait couler beaucoup d’encre parmi les historiens modernes qui cherchaient surtout sa localisation précise et sa date de fondation. Les premières recherches de terrain de Raymond Aris à la fin des années 1930, puis les travaux d’André Nickels dans les années 1970-1980 ont permis de confirmer la présence de la ville antique sous le site de la ville actuelle d’Agde, et de mieux connaître la vie de ses habitants. Ils ont également occasionné la découverte des deux nécropoles se rapportant à cet établissement : le Peyrou 2, fort de trente-cinq tombes s’échelonnant entre l’extrême fin du Ve siècle et le milieu du IIe siècle av. J.-C., et Saint-André, avec seulement deux tombes conservées de la seconde moitié du IIe siècle av. J.-C. Cet ouvrage étudie de manière détaillée ces sépultures et leur aménagement. Il fait une large place aux défunts eux-mêmes, et aux objets qui accompagnent certains d’entre eux. Il met ainsi en lumière des pratiques funéraires révélatrices de coutumes grecques, très différentes de celles du monde gaulois environnant. Fort proches de ceux de Marseille/Massalia, comparables à ceux d’Ampurias/Emporion, ces usages participent à la définition d’un "paysage" funéraire propre aux colonies grecques de la Méditerranée nord-occidentale.
Excavations (Archaeology) --- Tombs --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Greeks --- Agde (France) --- Antiquities --- Sepulchral monuments --- Agde --- Funeral customs and rites --- Ethnology --- Mediterranean race --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Agatha (France) --- Agathē (France) --- Agathē Tychē (France) --- Civitas Agathensium (France) --- Agathae Urbs (France) --- Antiquities. --- E-books --- Excavations (Archaeology) - France - Agde --- Tombs - France - Agde --- Sepulchral monuments - France - Agde --- Greeks - Funeral customs and rites - France - Agde --- Agde (France) - Antiquities --- nécropole --- sépulture --- pratique funéraire --- Grecs --- colonie grecque --- mobilier funéraire --- Greeks - Agde
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