Picturing death 1200-1600
type: CreativeWork
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Death in art
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  alternate name: 1200-1599
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126558
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127990
abstract: Picturing Death: 1200-1600 explores the visual culture of mortality over the course of four centuries that witnessed a remarkable flourishing of imagery focused on the themes of death, dying, and the afterlife. In doing so, this volume sheds light on issues that unite two periods--the Middle Ages and the Renaissance--that are often understood as diametrically opposed. The studies collected here cover a broad visual terrain, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture. Taken together, they present a picture of the ways that images have helped humans understand their own mortality, and have incorporated the deceased into the communities of the living.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310147695
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310207584
language: eng
is part of: Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
  type: CreativeWorkSeries
  name: Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ;
position: 321
position: 50
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Part 1. Housing the dead -- Part 2. Mortal anxieties and living paradoxes -- Part 3. The macabre, instrumentalized -- Part 4. Departure and persistence.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301309523

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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 309523