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  2. Symbols of death - Wikipedia

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    Religious symbols of death and depictions of the afterlife will vary with the religion practiced by the people who use them. Tombs, tombstones, and other items of funeral architecture are obvious candidates for symbols of death. [3] In ancient Egypt, the gods Osiris and Ptah were typically depicted as mummies; these gods governed the Egyptian ...

  3. Ancient Egyptian funerary texts - Wikipedia

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    The literature that makes up the ancient Egyptian funerary texts is a collection of religious documents that were used in ancient Egypt, usually to help the spirit of the concerned person to be preserved in the afterlife . They evolved over time, beginning with the Pyramid Texts in the Old Kingdom through the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom ...

  4. A Burial at Ornans - Wikipedia

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    Oil on canvas. 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 ...

  5. Funerary art - Wikipedia

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    Türbe of Roxelana (d. 1558), Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul. Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term encompasses a wide variety of forms, including cenotaphs ("empty tombs"), tomb-like monuments which do not contain human remains, and communal memorials to the dead, such as war ...

  6. Christian burial - Wikipedia

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    Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, UK. A Christian burial is the burial of a deceased person with specifically Christian rites; typically, in consecrated ground. Until recent times Christians generally objected to cremation because it interfered with the concept of the resurrection of a corpse, and practiced inhumation almost exclusively.

  7. Category:Religious objects - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Religious objects" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Altar cloth; Ancile;

  8. Pall (funeral) - Wikipedia

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    Pall (funeral) A funeral procession arriving at a church. The coffin is covered with an elaborate red and gold pall. From the Hours of Étienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet. ( Musée Condé, Chantilly) A pall (also called mortcloth or casket saddle) is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. [1] The word comes from the Latin pallium ...

  9. Religious art - Wikipedia

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    Religious art. 9th century Byzantine mosaic of the Hagia Sophia showing the image of the Virgin and Child, one of the first post-iconoclastic mosaics. It is set against the original golden background of the 6th century. Religious art is a visual representation of religious ideologies and their relationship with humans.

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