Main entry:

Llewellyn, Nigel, 1951- author.

Title & Author:

The art of death : visual culture in the English death ritual, c. 1500-c. 1800 / Nigel Llewellyn.

Publication:

London : Published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum by Reaktion Books, [1991].
copyright © 1991

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"With 101 illustrations, 10 in full colour."--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-150) and index.
1. The object of commemoration -- 2. Rites of passage -- 3. Dying, a process -- 4. Dances of death -- 5. Examples of virtue -- 6. Death, a bad business -- 7. Two bodies -- 8. Body language -- 9. The natural body and its fate -- 10. Funerals: the declaration of difference -- 11. Heraldic displays -- 12. Funeral paraphernalia -- 13. Liturgies -- 14. Worn out and in -- 15. Objects of mourning -- 16. The monumental body -- 17. Kinds of monument -- 18. Image theory -- 19. Epilogue.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0948462167 (pbk.)
9780948462160 (pbk.)

Subject:

Church of England Customs and practices.
Church of England.
Death in art.
Art, English.
Sepulchral monuments England.
Dead in art.
Art.
Death.
Funeral rites and ceremonies England.
Cadaver
Mort dans l'art.
Morts.
Monuments funéraires Angleterre.
Funérailles Rites et cérémonies Angleterre.
Art anglais.
Mort.
deaths.
Sepulchral monuments.
Beeldende kunsten.
Dood.
Grafmonumenten.
Arte funerária.
Morte.
Death Great Britain.
Sepulchral monuments Great Britain.
Mort Dans l'art.
Rites et cérémonies funéraires Grande-Bretagne 1500-1800.
England.
Visual arts Special subjects Death

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
History.

Added entries:

Victoria and Albert Museum.

Visual culture in the English death ritual, c. 1500-c. 1800

Holdings:

Location: Library main 65045
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:91-B2182
Status: Available