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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Sepulchral"”.
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Dying to be seen : an interpretive study of porcelain portraits on grave markers
… norms or differences regarding their views on sepulchral photographs as a form of memorialization. While the decision to display a gravestone portrait could simply be a long-standing cultural practice, this interpretivist study indicates that the role of photo-tombstones is negotiated through a …
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'The Place of My Fathers' Sepulchres' : the Jewish cemeteries in Vienna
… cityscape. Through a novel analysis of the sepulchral epigraphy of the thousands of matzevot or grave-memorials contained therein, the development and expression of codes of belonging constructed in the nexus between shifting notions of ‘Jewish’ and ‘Viennese’ culture are illuminated in a …
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Local identities in a common language: the iconography of Hellenistic funerary stelai from eastern Greek poleis
… as well as the adaptation of Classical sepulchral motifs into Hellenistic funerary iconography, the thesis demonstrates the diversity of the visual language in Eastern Greek cities. The thesis proposes a quantitative approach that goes beyond aesthetic evaluations and a focus on …
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Travelling in the direction of mortality': Wandering the Topography of Wordsworthian Selfhood
… the context of prosopopoeia and epitaph, a sepulchral monument is not a final resting place, but merely a platform from which the dead speak and through which they journey back.
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Choir Screens and Digital Technologies: Reconstructing Church Interiors and Mendicant Altarpieces in Medieval Pisa
… by Lippo Memmi and Deodato Orlandi and a sepulchral monument comprising the tombs of Archbishop Simone Saltarelli and Fra Giordano. Part III focuses on San Francesco, presenting a hypothetical proposal for the screen including a pair of gabled panels by Giotto and Cimabue above the …
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Denigrata Cervorum: interpretive performance autoethnography and female black metal performance
… function of musical genre. It radiates with its sepulchral fire on every side of culture [...] Black metal is the suffering body that illustrates, in the same spring, all the human darkness as much as its vital impetus. (Lesourd 41-42). Representation matters. Growing up there were only two women …
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The Journey to the Underworld: Topography, Landscape, and Divine Inhabitants of the Roman Hades
The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the ways the Roman Underworld was visualized, outlining the possible mental maps of the chthonic realm that constituted the main reference for the literary works and funerary monuments that were created in Rome and Ostia between the end of the first …
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"Imitado do inglês"? : a transtextualidade e o romantismo : noivados e (des)amores do sepulcro
A popularidade da chamada temática sepulcral reflecte-se no número de variações com que foi tratada ao longo de Setecentos e de Oitocentos – a que correspondem de um modo geral o Pré-Romantismo e o Romantismo, respectivamente. O motivo recorrente do morto que regressa do além-túmulo por causa da …