Art of Death: Visual Culture in the English Death Ritual c.1500 - c.1800 by Nigel Llewellyn

Art of Death: Visual Culture in the English Death Ritual c.1500 - c.1800

Nigel Llewellyn

160 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction art history emotional reflective slow-paced
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How did our ancestors die? Whereas in our own day the subject of death is usually avoided, in pre-Industrial England the rituals and processes of death were present and immediate. People not only surrounded themselves with memento mori, they also ...

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