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Depicting the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Stine Birk
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-28 - Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

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The present monograph takes its place in a now well-established tradition of seeing sarcophagi as visual statements of deceased individuals that used allegories
Depicting the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Stine Birk
Categories: Portrait sculpture, Ancient
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher:

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Explores how to read Roman sarcophagi, starting from those adorned with portraits and placing them within a social context; investigates gender values and child
SECURING THE SHADOW: POSTHUMOUS PORTRAITURE IN AMERICA.
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Stacy C. Hollander
Categories: Death
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher:

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The Frame in Classical Art
Language: en
Pages: 737
Authors: Verity Platt
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplemen
The Athenian Funeral Oration
Language: en
Pages: 555
Authors: David M. Pritchard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Lor