... shockingly grotesque. One example, "the formalized features and the open mouth of the principle figure in Poussin's The Massacre of the Innocents reveal unmistakably their origin in the masks which Greek and Roman actors wore when acting tragic parts, and it is not unlikely that Picasso also had such models in mind when he employed this device" (Blunt 47). Picasso adopted such ... of the world, but every human who could understand that "no mother holds her child that way: it must be dead" (Fisch 25). This image relates, as well to the masks worn in Greek and Roman tragedies, which had o...

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... seventy days to complete, although perhaps only forty days were needed for the actual mummification, and religious rituals would have occupied the remaining time. The embalmers and their assistants probably wore masks to impersonate the gods who attended the mummification of Osiris. A special funerary priest would have presided over the various stages, and recited the relevant religious texts. First, the body was ... ...

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