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  2. Immortelle (cemetery) - Wikipedia

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    Ceramic Immortelle, Mt Beppo Apostolic Cemetery, 2005. An immortelle is a long-lasting flower arrangement placed on graves in cemeteries.. They were originally made from natural dried flowers (which lasted longer than fresh flowers) or could be made from artificial materials such as china and painted plaster of paris or beads strung on wire arrangements.

  3. Ancient Greek funerary vases - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek funerary vases are decorative grave markers made in ancient Greece that were designed to resemble liquid-holding vessels. These decorated vases were placed on grave sites as a mark of elite status. There are many types of funerary vases, such as amphorae, kraters, oinochoe, and kylix cups, among others.

  4. Funerary art - Wikipedia

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    Instead, most Mesoamerican funerary art takes the form of grave goods and, in Oaxaca, funerary urns holding the ashes of the deceased. Two well-known examples of Mesoamerican grave goods are those from Jaina Island, a Maya site off the coast of Campeche, and those associated with the Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition. The tombs of Mayan ...

  5. Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Cemeteries usually dispose of these flowers after a few weeks in order to keep the space maintained. Some companies offer perpetual flower services, to ensure a grave is always decorated with fresh flowers. [45] Flowers may often be planted on the grave as well, usually immediately in front of the gravestone. For this purpose roses are highly ...

  6. Roman funerary art - Wikipedia

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    Tables most likely held offerings of food while vases or other glass or ceramic containers held offerings of wine. Objects such as the bases of gold glass beakers, shells, dolls, buttons, jewelry, bells, and coins were added to the mortar of the loculi or left on shelves near the tomb.

  7. Typology of Greek vase shapes - Wikipedia

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    In addition, various standard types might be used as external grave-markers (in extra-large versions, sometimes in stone), funerary urns containing ashes, or as grave goods. Several types of vase, especially the taller ones, could be made in "plastic" forms (also called "figure vases" or "relief vases") where the body was shaped sculpturally ...

  8. Hans Gillisz. Bollongier - Wikipedia

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    Hans Gillisz. Bollongier, Flower Piece, Rijksmuseum, 1639. Hans Gillisz. Bollongier, Flowers in a glass vase, München, 1640. Bollongier was born and died in Haarlem. According to the RKD little is known of his early life.

  9. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    At Athens researchers have found the earliest known examples of vase painters signing their work, the first being a dinos by Sophilos (illus. below, BM, c. 580), this perhaps indicative of their increasing ambition as artists in producing the monumental work demanded as grave markers, as for example with Kleitias's François Vase.

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