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Painted Funerary Monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria
Although painting was one of the most celebrated arts of ancient Greece, extant original works of this fragile craft are extremely rare. A group of six painted limestone funerary monuments from Alexandria are exceptionally well preserved survivals of Greek painting from the fourth and third centuries B.C. These monuments—each in the form of a Greek stele with a large recessed painted panel—were discovered in 1884 in excavations of a large hypogeum tomb in the Ibrahimieh necropolis of Alexandria. Conventionally known as the Soldiers' Tomb due to the preponderance of monuments commemorating foreign mercenaries in the service of the Ptolemaic kingdom, this subterranean burial complex had a large central court open to the sky and multiple horizontal rows of narrow niches ( loculi ) cut into its walls for burials. Many of these niches were sealed with small painted slabs. The six painted funerary monuments in the Metropolitan Museum constitute the best-preserved examples of painting from this tomb and some of the finest extant painting from Alexandria in this period.
Painted Funerary Monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metrop painted funerary monuments from hellenistic alexandria... funerary stele with a woman in childbirth, early hellenistic, late 4th–early 3rd century b.c. greek; from the soldiers' tomb, ibrahimieh necropolis, alexandria, excavated 1884 limestone, paint h.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pfmh/hd_pfmh.htm [1132 words]
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Funerary Vases in Southern Italy and Sicily | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Muse funerary vases in southern italy and sicily... centuripe vase, ca. 400–375 b.c. greek, sicilian, centuripe terracotta h. 15 5/8 in. (37.7 cm) purchase, joseph pulitzer bequest, 1953 (53.11.5) ...
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fune/hd_fune.htm [2759 words]
Asante Royal Funerary Arts | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art asante royal funerary arts... memorial head, 17th century ghana; akan, twifo region, hemang city terracotta, roots, quartz fragments h. 7 31/32 in. (20.24 cm) the michael c. rockefeller memorial collection, purchase, nelson a.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/asan_4/hd_asan_4.htm [489 words]
Funerary jar - Victoria & Albert Museum - Search the Collections funerary jar place of origin: london (made) date: 1999 (made) artist/maker: stair, julian (artist) materials and techniques: porcelain, thrown and constructed credit line: gift of adrian sassoon esq.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O34766/funerary-jar/ [302 words]
Kingdoms of Madagascar: Malagasy Funerary Arts | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan M kingdoms of madagascar: malagasy funerary arts... standing couple ( hazomanga ?), 17th–late 18th century madagascar; menabe, sakalava peoples wood, pigment h. 39 in. (99.06 cm) purchase, lila acheson wallace, daniel and marian malcolm, and james j.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/madg_2/hd_madg_2.htm [1268 words]
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Funerary plaque [Greek, Attic] (54.11.5) ¦ Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History ¦ The Metropolitan Museum of Art funerary plaque , ca. 520–510 b.c.; archaic, black-figure greek, attic terracotta h. 10 1/4 in. (26.04 cm) rogers fund, 1954 (54.11.5) in the late sixth century b.c., terracotta plaques like this one often decorated the walls of tombs.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/54.11.5 [209 words]
Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche ¦ Highlights ¦ Greek and Roman Art ¦ Collection Database ¦ Works of Art ¦ The Met marble funerary altar of cominia tyche medium; technique marble culture roman period flavian or trajanic date ca. a.d. 90–100 dimensions h. 40 in. (101.6 cm) classification stone sculpture credit line gift of philip hofer,
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/marble_funerary_altar_of_cominia_tyche/objectview.aspx?pag [660 words]