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Marble cinerary chest (90–110 AD), made by Marcus Domitius Primigenius "for himself, his freedmen and freedwomen, and their descendants": the deceased makes an offering to a reclining female figure who may be Mother Earth, with two attendants holding food and wine (Metropolitan Museum of Art) [1]
Three studies of old men's heads: About 1630 B015: 5: Self portrait in a cloak with a falling collar: bust: 1630-1631 B366: 1: Sheet of studies of men's heads: About 1630-31 B007: 11: Self portrait in a soft hat and embroidered cloak: 1631 B016: 1: Self portrait in a heavy fur cap: bust: 1631 B134: 3: Old woman seated in a cottage with a string ...
Faces of Death (later re-released as The Original Faces of Death) is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" and "Alan Black" respectively. [3] [4]
Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1] and their funerary traditions and grave art provide a unique insight into their views on death. The minimalist decoration and lack of embellishment of the early headstone designs reflect the British ...
The drawing is related to the etching B162 : Self-portrait with Open Mouth: c. 1628-1629: Pen and brown ink with grey wash; ruled framing lines in the same brown ink: 12.7 x 9.5 cm: British Museum, London: The drawing is related to the etching B013 : Self-portrait: c. 1629: Pen: 12.7 x 9.4 cm: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: The drawing is related to ...
[13] [14] In 2009, the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South and Minnow Media published the documentary Meinrad Craighead: Praying with Images. [11] Craighead's published works include: The Mother's Birds: Images for a Death and a Birth. Worcester, England: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1976. The Sign of the Tree: Meditations in Images ...
The faces are idealised rather than accurate portrayals and often show the deceased much younger than they had been at death. [30] The effigies are always recumbent—as if dead, and by the 14th century with hands clasped in prayer. The most common material is carvings on marble, alabaster or wood, with some examples cast in bronze or brass.
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]