1. Death and Ritual in Renaissance Italy
Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. ... Funerary art may serve many cultural functions. ... Every Renaissance church in Italy is filled with masterpieces of Funerary Art. ... In most instances, specialized funeral art was produced for the powerful and wealthy, although the burials of ordinary people might include simple monuments and grave goods, usually from their possessions. The Tomb of Antipope John XXIII in Florence is a grand Early Renaissance wall tomb by Donatello and Michelozzo; although classical in style, it reflects the s...
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