Sentences with phrase «funerary monuments»
"Funerary monuments" are structures or objects that are built or created to honor and remember the deceased. They serve as a way for people to commemorate and pay their respects to loved ones who have passed away. Full definition
They include a Paleolithic tool, an ancient Egyptian funerary monument, a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, and paintings by Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso and Cy Twombly.
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Here are also situated Gothic funerary monuments of the Della Scala family known as the Scaligeri Graves.
The largest Franciscan church in the world, the beautiful Basilica di Santa Croce was consecrated in the fifteenth century and is notable both for its superb artworks and for housing funerary monuments to Italian luminaries including Dante, Galileo, Rossini, Michelangelo and Machiavelli.
His work is inspired by such artists as Giorgio Morandi, Phillip Guston, and George Herriman, and by such varied forms as Japanese Momoyama ceramics and Hawaiian funerary monuments.
In Rome, Hart visited funerary monuments with Katherine Huemoeller, a researcher from Princeton University whose recent investigations has led Huemoeller to focus on gaining an understanding of family relationships and structures in ancient Rome.
It features photographs taken in Central Asia of slowly decaying funerary monuments.
To me, the internet seemed to offer an obvious way to fulfil Kathryn's wish — certainly more so than a dramatic headstone or funerary monument.
The stele, her favorite shape, has been used since ancient times for memorial and funerary monuments, and the form gives Ms. Truitt's work an archetypal, timeless feeling.