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Museums of Death: Paris and Moscow Cemeteries

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Museums of Death: Paris and Moscow Cemeteries
14.99 €
Burial is one of the universal institutions necessary for both an individual and an entire society to preserve the memory of the dead. Funeral rites, regulated in many cultural traditions, structure the emotions and behavior not only of the mourners, but also of all those present. Olga Matic describes cemeteries not only as valuable sources of local history, but above all as museums of art, exploring the architectural and sculptural features of individual monuments, tomb genres and their artistic specificity, reflecting the era: Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Art Nouveau and so on. The book covers the main Parisian cemeteries (Père Lachaise, Montparnasse, Montmartre and Passy), the Moscow cemeteries (Donskoye, Novodevichy, Vvedenskoye and Vagankovskoye), as well as the emigrant cemetery of St. Geneviève de Bois on the outskirts of Paris. The subjects related to the cemetery as a social institution and an individual place of repose are inscribed by the author in the historical, cultural and political...
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