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Envisaging death : visual culture and dying
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ISBN: 1443864196 9781443864190 1306992192 9781306992190 144384926X 9781443849265 144384926X 9781443849265 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

Cemeteries and gravemarkers
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ISBN: 1283311305 9786613311306 0874213231 0585039313 0874211603 9780874213232 9780585039312 9781283311304 9780874211603 6613311308 Year: 1992 Publisher: Logan, Utah Utah State University Press

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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.


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Architects' gravesites
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ISBN: 9780262340755 0262340755 9780262533478 0262533472 0262340747 9780262340748 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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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.


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Pioneer cemeteries
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ISBN: 1281958271 9786611958275 0803218672 9780803218673 9780803216082 0803216084 9781281958273 Year: 2008 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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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.


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Carved in stone
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ISBN: 0819573027 9780819573025 9780819573018 0819573019 Year: 2012 Publisher: Middletown, CT Wesleyan University Press

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Evocative photographs and essay illuminate early American gravestones.


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Tomb - Memory - Space
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ISBN: 3110516101 3110517345 9783110516104 9783110517347 9783110515893 311051589X Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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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.


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Visual style and constructing identity in the Hellenistic world
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ISBN: 9781107141971 1107141974 9781316494035 9781316506776 1108223036 1108216285 1108214932 110821763X 1108224385 1316494039 1316506770 1108206832 9781108224383 Year: 2017 Volume: *31 Publisher: Cambridge

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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.


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Roman Phrygia
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ISBN: 9781107031289 9781139381574 1107031281 1139381571 9781107291300 1107291305 9781461939856 1461939852 9781107290259 1107290252 1139892320 9781139892322 1107289726 9781107289727 1107289203 9781107289208 1107294096 9781107294097 Year: 2013 Volume: *23 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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.


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Grecs en Gaule du Sud : Tombes de la colonie d'Agathè (Agde, Hérault, IVe-IIe siècles avant J.-C.)
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ISSN: 21012849 ISBN: 9782877726276 9782491788131 2877726274 2491788136 2877728803 Year: 2020 Volume: 24 Publisher: Aix-en-Provence : Publications du Centre Camille Jullian,

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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.

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