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Topic 8 - Study Images
In the Face of Death

 

Part I: Picturing the afterlife

·        Fragment of a Egyptian Book of the Death, ca. 1040-945 BC

·        Wooden model funerary boat, 12th Dynasty, about 1900 BC, Egypt

·        Sabouroff painter, White-ground vase bearing the representation of Charon and Hermes, Athens, 5th century BC

·        Giotto, Frescoes of the Arena Chapel, Padua, c. 1305-10

General view
The Last Judgment

·        Michelangelo, Last Judgment, 1534-41, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome

 

Part II: Monuments for eternity

·        Tomb of Tutankhamen, Valley of the Kings, Dayr al-Bahri, Egypt, c.1350 B.C
Burial chamber

Throne

Sarcophagus

Mummy portrait

·        Temple of the inscriptions, Palenque (in today Chiapas State, Mexico), 200-900 AD

Portrait head of Pacal I, 600-900 AD, stucco

Lid of Pacal I’s sarcophagus (drawing)

Censer stand with human face, 700-800 AD, ceramic

·        Ustad Ahmed Lahauri (designer), Ustad Isa Afandi (chief architect), Ismail Khan Afridi (dome), Taj Mahal, Uttar Pradesh, Agra, India, 1632-1648

Interior

Sarcophagi