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Funeral Procession is a painting by Clementine Hunter. It is in the collection of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. Funeral Procession is one of many in a series of funeral procession-themed paintings by Hunter. Description. The painting depicts an African American funeral procession in Louisiana. Two men leave a ...
Known for. Paintings of Black Southern life. Clementine Hunter (pronounced Clementeen; late December 1886 or early January 1887 – January 1, 1988) was a self-taught Black folk artist from the Cane River region of Louisiana, who lived and worked on Melrose Plantation. Hunter was born into a Louisiana Creole family at Hidden Hill Plantation ...
Dimensions. 315 cm × 660 cm (124 in × 260 in) Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. A Burial at Ornans (French: Un enterrement à Ornans, also known as A Funeral at Ornans) is a painting of 1849–50 by Gustave Courbet. It is widely regarded as a major turning point in 19th-century French art. The painting records a funeral in Courbet's birthplace ...
Funeral Procession. Funeral Procession is the name of a painting by Ellis Wilson, which went from obscurity to notoriety in 1986, when it was featured heavily in the episode "The Auction" of the TV series The Cosby Show ' s second season. In the episode, Clair Huxtable states that Wilson was her great-uncle, and that her grandmother had owned ...
Before dawn on the third day, the funeral procession (ekphora) formed to carry the body to its resting place. [11] Depending on the wealth of the family of the deceased, they would often hire people to mourn the dead during these processions. At the time of the funeral, offerings were made to the deceased by only a relative and lover.
480 cm × 360 cm (190 in × 140 in) Location. Iglesia de Santo Tomé, Toledo. The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (Spanish: El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz) is a 1586 painting by El Greco, a prominent Renaissance painter, sculptor, and architect of Greek origin. Widely considered among his finest works, it illustrates a popular local legend of his ...
The Funeral (French – L'Enterrement) is an 1867–1870 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Incomplete, its style is very close to that of Effect of Snow on Petit-Montrouge and The Exposition Universelle of 1867 (Rouart, Widenstein 1975 no. 123). It is also known as Burial at the ...
114.3 cm × 232.1 cm (45.0 in × 91.4 in) Location. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky. Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile (also known as Funeral of a Mummy, French: Les Funérailles d'une momie) is an oil on canvas painting by American artist Frederick Arthur Bridgman. It was painted between 1876 and 1877 and is considered his most acclaimed ...