A Celebration of Death : An Introduction to Some of the Buildings, Monuments, and Settings of Funerary Architecture in the Western European Tradition

Curl, James Stevens

ISBN 10: 0713473363 / ISBN 13: 9780713473360

Verlag: B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1993, London, 1993

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Presentation from the author with inscription to first blank. xxiv, 408 pp. Publisher's deluxe binding. Full dark green morocco with gilt borders to boards and gilt decoration & lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Numerous black & white illustrations. Very clean copy. 0713473363 4to. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 63664

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Titel: A Celebration of Death : An Introduction to ...

Verlag: B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1993, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1993

Einband: Full Morocco

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This book describes and illustrates funerary architecture, monuments, memorials, and mausolea, together with the landscapes of cemeteries, from classical antiquity to the 20th century. The subjects of funerary architecture, of commemorative structures, and of cemeteries have been neglected by writers until fairly recently. This book describes funerary traditions, derived from early civilizations, from the Graeco-Roman world, and from Judaeo-Christian practice. In one broad sweep the author covers a wide range of chronology and geographical area, including the highly elaborate cemeteries created from the 18th century onwards.