The funerary art of ancient Rome changed throughout the course of the Roman Republic and the Empire and took many different forms. There were two main...

Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term encompasses a wide variety of forms, including...

Roman funerary practices include the Ancient Romans' religious rituals concerning funerals, cremations, and burials. They were part of time-hallowed tradition...

art. Some busts even seem to show clinical signs. Several images and statues made in marble and bronze have survived in small numbers. Roman funerary...

on Greek and Roman mythology or mystery religions that offered personal salvation, and allegorical representations. Roman funerary art also offers a...

Funerary reliefs of married couples were common in Roman funerary art. They are one of the most common funerary portraits found on surviving freedmen...

In the burial practices of ancient Rome and Roman funerary art, marble and limestone sarcophagi elaborately carved in relief were characteristic of elite...

Animal sacrifice Lustratio October Horse Taurobolium Roman funerary practices Roman funerary art Roman sarcophagi Latin Romance languages History of Latin...

A funerary cult is a body of religious teaching and practice centered on the veneration of the dead, in which the living are thought to be able to confer...

Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum has been both exhibited as art and censored as pornography. The Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum around the...

The Cesnola Sphinx Funerary Stele is a Classic Greek funerary stela dating to the last quarter of the 5th century B.C. It is part of the Cesnola Collection...

largest corpus of portrait sculpture in the Roman world outside Rome and the largest collection of funerary representations from one place in the classical...

Roman art The art of Ancient Rome, and the territories of its Republic and later Empire, includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work. Luxury...

century AD Roman funerary art, the love of Selene for Endymion and his eternal sleep was a popular subject for artists. As frequently depicted on Roman sarcophagi...

The Lovatelli urn is an early Roman imperial period or 1st century CE marble funerary urn. It is thought to depict Persephone, Demeter and Triptolemus...

later periods, exported to the Romans and others. See the "Metalwork" section below for these, and "Funerary art" for tomb art. The famous bronze "Capitoline...

Byzantine art comprises the body of artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the...

sculpture, and manuscript illumination. Early Christian art used not only Roman forms but also Roman styles. Late classical style included a proportional...

Millar (2012), pp. 81–82. Carroll, Maureen (2006). Spirits of the Dead: Roman Funerary Commemoration in Western Europe. Oxford University Press. pp. 45–46...

site includes a Roman cryptoporticus and a 6th-century baptistery. Other finds include Roman funerary art from the Roman and late Roman period excavated...

Funerary practices in different cultures A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with...

highly praised doctoral dissertation on Roman funerary art. Kleiner began her teaching career as a lecturer in art history at the University of Virginia...

However, other Roman eagles, either symbolizing imperial rule or used as funerary emblems, have been discovered. The signa militaria were the Roman military...

within Greek society, including, but not limited to, funerary vases and symposium vases. Large funerary vases (often Dipylon kraters for men, and belly-handled...

Samothrace. It follows the period of Classical Greek art, while the succeeding Greco-Roman art was very largely a continuation of Hellenistic trends...

Christianization of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media. It was...

especially those depicting "wraiths." Ships often appear in Greek and Roman funerary art representing a voyage to the Isles of the Blessed, and a 2nd-century...

of funerary art from the chora, or countryside, in Roman Egypt. Combining Egyptian and Greek pictorial forms or motifs was not restricted to funerary art...

Greco-Roman world. Ancient Roman civilisation has contributed to modern language, religion, society, technology, law, politics, government, warfare, art, literature...

Roman Republican art is the artistic production that took place in Roman territory during the period of the Republic, conventionally from 509 BC to 27...