Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600): Monuments of Mourning, Memory and Meditation - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jan L. de JongSeries:Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual HistorTheme:Religious Orientation/Catholic, Religious Orientation/ChristianPublish date:11/10/2022Pages:404
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004179363ISBN-10:9004179364UPC:9789004179363Book Category:Architecture, Art, HistoryBook Subcategory:Buildings, History, EuropeBook Topic:Religious, RenaissanceSize:9.21 x 6.10 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.758Product ID:SC9VMRREPH
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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?
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?
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004179363ISBN-10:9004179364UPC:9789004179363Book Category:Architecture, Art, HistoryBook Subcategory:Buildings, History, EuropeBook Topic:Religious, RenaissanceSize:9.21 x 6.10 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.758Product ID:SC9VMRREPH
Jan L. de Jong (PhD Leiden University, 1987) is Senior Lecturer of Art History of the Early Modern Period at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands. He has published extensively on early modern Italian art, especially in Rome. His books include The Power and the Glorification: Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Penn State University Press, 2013).
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