TY - BOOK ID - 104095591 TI - Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600) : Monuments of Mourning, Memory and Meditation PY - 2022 SN - 9789004526938 9789004179363 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Art History KW - Classical Studies KW - Classical Tradition & Reception Studies KW - Cultural History KW - Early Modern History KW - History KW - Literature and Cultural Studies KW - Memory Studies KW - Cultural history KW - Art History. KW - Classical Studies. KW - Classical Tradition & Reception Studies. KW - Cultural History. KW - Early Modern History. KW - History. KW - Literature and Cultural Studies. KW - Memory Studies. KW - Art history KW - History of art KW - Rome (Italy) KW - Social life and customs. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:104095591 AB - Jan L. de Jong studies how tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600) did not just function as a place to bury the dead, but as monuments of mourning, memory, and meditation on life, death and the hereafter. In Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600) , Jan L. de Jong studies how funerary monuments did not simply mark a grave, but offered an image of the deceased that was carefully crafted in order to generate a laudable memory and stimulate meditation on life, death and the hereafter. This leads to such questions as: which image of themselves did cardinals create when they commissioned their own tomb monument? Why were most popes buried in a grandiose tomb monument that they claimed they did not want? Which memory of their mother did children create, and what do tombs for children tell about mothers? Were certain couples buried together so as to demonstrate their eternal love, expecting an afterlife in each other’s company? ER -