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pwlanier · 1 year

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Title (name): Chasuble with appIication - symbols of death

1740-1760

National Museum Krakow

#death #skeleton #memento mori #roman catholic #funerary art #wow #grateful dead

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zsorosebudphoto · 1 year

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Cementiri de Montjuïc, Barcelona, 18/10/22

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octobersociety · 8 months

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Burial monument in bronze. Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa, Italy circa 1904

#cemetery #funerary art

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mecha-frankenstein · 9 months

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Funeral Barbie diorama by Paolo Schmidlin. From his collection of vintage Barbies, part ofthe "Barbie Around the World" exhibit at the Barbara Frigerio in Italy

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holycosmolo9y · 7 months

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Head of a funerary couch, in the shape of Ammit 😛

Ammit is a celestial beast who bestows final judgement on the deceased and devours the unjust in the court of Osiris.

Populalrly depicted in funerary texts like the Book of the Dead, Ammit is usually a combination of a crocodile's head, the front legs of a lion, and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus.

Found among three ritual funerary couches in Tutankhamun's antechamber and made of stuccoed gilded wood with each animal's eyes inlaid with colored glass paste, this particular couch is variedly composed of a curiously different configuration: a hippopotamus' head wearing a wig, a leopard's body, and a crocodile's tail and crest

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homerstroystory · 11 months

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Funerary Statue of a Dog, Pentelic marble, Piraeus (Athens, Greece), c. 375-350 BCE

currently in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum (Athens, Greece), accession no. 3574

this statue is often interpreted as the faithful guardian of the deceased human entombed below him

#archaeology #art #classical archaeology #isaac.jpg #greek #hellenistic #piraeus #funerary archaeology #funerary art #animal figures

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kvetch19 · 8 months

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dark-longings · 1 month

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Guidarello Guidarelli, condottiero in the service of Cesare Borgia. Funerary art attributed to Tullio Lombardo, circa 1525.

#dark aesthetic #dark art #classical art #funerary art #renaissance art #knightcore #renaissance #goth aesthetic #gothic #dark romance #16th century #dark #tombstone #gloomy #knighthood #dark academia #darkest academia #romanticism

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thesilicontribesman · 6 months

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Prehistoric Pottery Selection 4, Oriel Ynys Môn, Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales

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thepastisalreadywritten · 5 months

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This is one of the only terracotta warriors that was found almost completely intact.

Note the detail on the bottom of his shoe, showing that grip and traction were considered in footwear even 2,200 years ago.

Each life-sized clay warrior was crafted to be completely unique and there are no two terracotta warriors-among the 8,000 total—that are exactly the same.

Shortly after the completion of the tomb in 210-209 BC, it was looted for weapons and burned, causing the roof to collapse, crushing the terracotta warriors.

All the other terracotta warriors that are currently on display were painstakingly restored.

What's even more remarkable is that the terracotta warriors were originally painted in bright colors by skilled artisans.

Unfortunately, when they were exposed to air and sunlight during the excavation in the 1970s, the colors began to curl up almost immediately and disappeared within minutes.

These terracotta warriors were put in place to guard the tomb of the first emperor of unified China — Qin Shi Huang (18 February 259 BC – 12 July 210 BC).

To this day, the tomb has yet to be opened.

According to ancient historians, the tomb contains an entire kingdom and palace in which the ceilings are decorated with pearls to mimic the night sky.

The tomb is also said to contain extremely rare artifacts and has been rigged with crossbows to shoot anyone trying to break in.

To keep its location a secret, the workers were entombed with the emperor.

As described by Han dynasty historian Sima Qian (145-90 BCE) in the Records of the Grand Historian, he mentioned that inside the tomb, "mercury was used to fashion the hundred rivers, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and the seas in such a way that they flowed."

Modern tests have indicated extremely high levels of mercury in the surrounding soil.

#Qin Shi Huang #terracotta warriors #Qin Dynasty #China’s First Emperor #clay warrior #Terracotta Army #Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor #funerary art #Ancient Chinese Warfare #military power #terracotta sculptures #Shaanxi #China

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bull-believer · 5 months

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Funerary loculus slab with names of Antigona and Aristopolis (c. 300–250 BCE), Alexandria, Egypt. (wikipedia)

#g studies #ancient egypt #dogs #funerary art

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dubmill · 9 months

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Finchley, London; 15.4.2023

#photography #photographers on tumblr #dubmill #London #Finchley #England #UK #Britain #churchyard #cemetery #St Mary-at-Finchley #funerary art #statue #original photography #original photograph #walk #New Southgate to Stirling Corner #2023 #15042023

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arthistoryanimalia · 6 months

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#InternationalSnowLeopardDay: The mythical winged snow leopard on the mountain, now a national symbol of Kazakhstan.

badge from The Golden Warrior burial Issyk kurgan, ca. 4th-3rd c. BCE stamped & engraved gold 7.2 × 8.5 cm National Museum of of the Republic of Kazakhstan collection