Tombs in Early Mode Rome (1400-1600):Monuments of Mouing, Memory and Meditation (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 65)

by: Jan L. DeJong (Author)

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Publication Date: 2022/11/10

Language: English

Print Length: 401 pages

ISBN-10: 9004179364

ISBN-13: 9789004179363

Book Description

In Tombs in Early Mode 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 eteal love, expecting an afterlife in each other’s company?

About the Author

In Tombs in Early Mode 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 eteal love, expecting an afterlife in each other’s company?

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