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Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600): Monuments of Mourning, Memory and Meditation

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  • Publisher: Brill

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In Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600), Jan L. de Jong reveals how funerary monuments, far from simply marking a grave, offered an image of the deceased that was carefully crafted to generate a laudable memory and prompt meditative reflections on life, death, and the hereafter. This leads to such questions as: which image of themselves did cardinals create when they commissioned their own tomb monuments? Why were most popes buried in grandiose tomb monuments that they claimed they did not want? Which memory of their mothers did children create, and what do tombs for children tell about mothers? Were certain couples buried together so as to demonstrate their eternal love, expecting an afterlife in each other's company?

  • Title

    Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600): Monuments of Mourning, Memory and Meditation

  • Author

    Jan L. de Jong

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    November 2022

  • Weight

    763g

  • ISBN

    9789004179363

  • ISBN-10

    9004179364

  • Eden Code

    7360978

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