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Art and Death in Medieval Byzantium
Dramatic illustrations of saintly deaths, as well as elaborate tombs featuring portraits of the deceased, were among the most powerful and persistent images in medieval Byzantium from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Such artistic monuments expressed both individual and communal ideas about death, and life after death. Byzantine Christians believed in the soul's gradual separation from the earthly body after dying, led forth by the archangel Michael. This separation of the soul from the flesh happened over the course of three days and concluded ultimately, at the end of time, in the Last Judgment, a belief held commonly by medieval Christians in both East and West. At the Last Judgment, the individual soul was either eternally condemned to hell or placed among the saved in the gardens of Paradise.
Art and Death in Medieval Byzantium | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Ar prayers could be spoken on behalf of the dead to increase the likelihood of a favorable judgment for that individual at the end of time. such prayers for the dead in byzantium were performed in a number of contexts, including: in personal prayers spoken by individuals remembering deceased relatives and loved ones; in monastic rites of commemoration for individuals or families, conducted by nuns and monks at the request of a monastery's original founder or later benefactors; and in the brief prayers for the entire community of the dead spoken during the regular performance of the divine liturgy,
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