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Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600): Monuments of Mourning, Memory and Meditation

By Jan L. De Jong

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2022
ISBN
9004179364, 9789004179363
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
132 MB (138416452 bytes)
Series
Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual Histor; 65
Pages
436\422
Time added
2024-06-28 03:55:20

Description

In Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600), Jan L. de Jong reveals how funerary monuments, far from simply marking a grave, offered an image of the deceased that was carefully crafted to generate a laudable memory and prompt meditative reflections on life, death, and the hereafter. This leads to such questions as: which image of themselves did cardinals create when they commissioned their own tomb monuments? Why were most popes buried in grandiose tomb monuments that they claimed they did not want? Which memory of their mothers did children create, and what do tombs for children tell about mothers? Were certain couples buried together so as to demonstrate their eternal love, expecting an afterlife in each other's company?

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