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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 the individual soul was either eternally condemned to hell or placed among the saved in the gardens of paradise. the virgin's peaceful falling asleep in death, combined with christ's tender embrace of her soul—represented in byzantine art as a swaddled infant —rendered an ideal image, one in which the virgin's soul was conveyed to heaven immediately upon her death.... related... cited works of art or images (1)... timelines (6)... anatolia and the caucasus, 500–1000 a.d.
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National Gallery of Art, Romulus and Remus (Getty Museum) safely floated down the river and landed at the future site of rome. there a she-wolf, an animal sacred to mars, took care of them until a herdsman named faustulus discovered them. in the miniature, the tightly swaddled twins lie by the side of the tiber. the she-wolf hovers protectively over them at the left, while faustulus approaches from the right. the great city of rome, which the twins will eventually found,
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=5937 [205 words]
Birth and Family in the Italian Renaissance | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Muse another object that rounds out our picture of family life is the cradle or crib. in confinement images such as those visible on maiolica birth wares, cradles frequently appear, bearing their new occupants swaddled in fine linens. one example, richly carved and emblazoned with family escutcheons, is testimony to the deep regard in which children were held. the cradle depicted on a wood childbirth platter from the circle of battista franco holds a large infant labeled on the front,
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bifa/hd_bifa.htm [2083 words]