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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

The ancient Egyptians had an elaborate set of funerary practices that they believed were necessary to ensure their immortality after death. These rituals...

society, including, but not limited to, funerary vases and symposium vases. Funerary vases not only depicted funerary scenes, but they also had practical...

Retrieved 2014-06-27. Heroic themes of the Trojan War cycle in Roman funerary art example of a relief from Pincum. Balcanica, (37), 25-45. "2011 Census...

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

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

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

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...

century BC, the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman Republic (509–27 BC), Roman Empire (27 BC– 395 AD), and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the...

Indian art Indian art consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk. Geographically...