A Celebration of Death: An Introduction to Some of the Buildings, Monuments, and Settings of Funerary Architecture in the Western European TraditionDescribes funerary architecture, monuments, memorials, and mausolea, together with the landscapes of cemeteries, from classical antiquity to the present. The book covers a wide range of chronology and geographical area, including the elaborate cemeteries created during the 18th century. |
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The buildings cemeteries gardens and sculptures | 21 |
The flowering of funerary art in the Middle Ages | 70 |
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aediculated altar-tomb arcades arch architect architecture of death Baroque beautiful became bodies Boullée Brompton Brompton Cemetery Brookwood Cemetery building built burial buried canopy catacombs Cathedral celebrated Cemetery Company cenotaph centre century chamber chantry-chapels Christian churches churchyards circular Classical cloistered coffins colonnade columbarium columns commemorated consists contains cremation crematorium dead decorated designs dome Doric Doric Order effigies Egyptian entablature entrance erected Europe European example façade figures French funerary architecture funerary art galleries gardens Glasgow Glasgow Necropolis Gothic graves graveyards Greek ground Halicarnassos Highgate Highgate Cemetery huge hygienic interment Italian J. C. Loudon John Kensal Green landscape Left Plate loculi London Cemetery marble mausolea mausoleum mediaeval memorials motifs Necropolis Neoclassical Neoclassicism niches Nunhead Cemetery obelisks Paris Park pediment Père-Lachaise planted podium pyramid Queen Renaissance Right Plate Roman Rome sarcophagus sculpture sepulchral Staglieno statues stone style temple Thomas tombs Ulster urns vaults walls Westminster Abbey