Funerary Arts and Tomb Cult: Living with the Dead in France, 1750-1870

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Even before the upheaval of the Revolution, France sought a new formal language for a regenerated nation. Nowhere is this clearer than in its tombs, some among its most famous brand new sculpture-rarely discussed as funerary projects. Unlike other art-historical studies of tombs, this one frames sculptural examples throughout the full spectrum of the material funerary arts of the period, at the side of architecture and landscape. This book further widens the usual scope to shed new and needed light at the interplay of the funerary arts, tomb cult, and the mentalities that shaped them in France, over a period famous for profound and ceaselessly violent change. Suzanne Glover Lindsay also brings the abundant contemporary work at the body to the funerary arts and tomb cult for the first time, confronting cultural and aesthetic issues through her examination of a celebrated sculptural type, the recumbent effigy of the deceased in death. The usage of many unfamiliar period sources, this study reinterprets several famous tombs and funerals and introduces significant enterprises which might be little known nowadays to suggest the prominent place held by tomb cult in nineteenth-century France. Images of the tombs complement the text to underline sculpture’s unique formal power in funerary mode.

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