The Egyptian Gallery at Glencairn showcases the intricate decoration of coffins, tumulus, mounds, kurgans, and long barrows used for burials in various cultures. These places provide insights into beliefs and practices related to burial practices and the afterlife, including how people were buried. Mummification, magic, and ritual are investigated through objects on display, such as mummies, coffins, funerary masks, portraits, and other items designed to be buried with the deceased.
Relatives of the deceased, primarily women, conducted elaborate burial rituals that were customarily of three parts: the prothesis (laying out of the body), the ekphora (funeral procession), and the interment of the body. Painted scenes on two large Athenian vases now on display in the Getty Villa highlight the role these images played in funerary rituals. Funerary art is embellishment elements added to the resting place of the dead and are meant to be visible to visitors after funeral ceremonies.
Early Christian sarcophagi are known for their ornate, beautiful sculpture that decorates the exterior of the stone. Funeral art encompasses a wide variety of forms, including personalized headstones, grave markers, and kerbed memorials filled with flowers, plants, greenery, colored chippings, or a variety of other materials. The Egyptian Gallery at Glencairn provides a unique perspective on the burial practices and the afterlife, highlighting the importance of understanding the cultural significance of these practices in the context of burial practices.
📹 See Inside The Types Of Mausoleums And Burial Chambers With Family Crypts And Stained Glass Windows
2023 video guide to different types of walk in private mausoleums, above ground burial chamber styles, family crypt and tomb …
📹 From tomb to museum: the story of the Sarpedon Krater
Euphronios, Sarpedon Krater, (signed by Euxitheos as potter and Euphronios as painter), c. 515 B.C.E., red-figure terracotta, 55.1 …
I’ll say this for the company – They are upfront and outright on the costs. And I’m sure that they are reasonable for such materials and craftsmanship. Naturally, the option of such products is a personal choice. I, frankly, don’t see much sense in elaborate and ostentatious memorials. But to each his own.
A problem arises when the coffins spring a leak of decomposed bodily fluids, which is not uncommon. Sometimes this muck leaks from the crypt and onto the mausoleum floor, and with that, a terrible stench and public health problem! Once all the family members are dead and gone there is nobody to authorise, or to pay for maintenance of the mausoleum, it will start to fall into disrepair and in a century the place will be a derelict liability.
I always wonder if the family have to continue to pay for the site it occupies…or upkeep. I’ve seen inside the huge buildings that house many cremated remains in ( columbarium s?), also the number of marble crypts, but I also wonder who owns these places, and how long are they expected to last? At least when actually buried in the ground, you know your hopefully going to be safe from being dug up and moved for a motorway to go through! These huge mausoleums I admit are beautiful, especially with stained glass letting coloured rainbows of light enter and make the interior look amazing! But I’m still worried about the upkeep of them. I’ve seen a article on utube where a funeral home/mausoleum had gone bust and the owner disappeared,leaving the building and graves in a terrible state. Vandals had been in, pulled coffins out of their niches AND the bodies from their coffins …cremated remains were scattered and it was an awful mess. I’m in the U.K., but did write a letter of complaint to the local council, but another article appeared, a few months later and NOTHING had been Done. I am appalled. I’m sure the smell must have reached people living nearby, but nobody appeared interested in getting involved. I was sad to see a lone grave of a veterans burial outside, quietly being tended to by a loved one. Very very sad. Thankyou for sharing all your information l…most of which looks beautiful. I wonder how many people can afford such things these days! 🤔🤔
my family is scattered all over the cemetery. mother and father together but my brother and sister are in two different graves away from them as all the spots next to my parents were taken. Would have loved to have one of these to keep us all together but way to expensive. Would love to buy a 10-grave plot and move them next to each other.
As an environmental conscious individual, I would like to know how body fluids are drained from a mausoleum and how the crypts are ventilated? It would be foolish to retain the fluids within the structures since they would be one source of odors as well as a type of biohazard. Fluids retained in caskets tend to be a bit caustic and would cause a casket to rust out if made from metal. Even the best coatings will protect metals for a finite period of time.
Waste of money. I rather be cremated and give my ashes to my kids, they don’t have to worry about where daddy is buried. I want them to be free and move wherever they want, knowing that Daddy will always be in spirit no matter where the wind blows, I just want to be with my Lord when I’m no longer on earth.
I do not excuse looter or illegal traffic in art objects. There should be laws governing traffic. What I abhor is the treatment of museums in America. America spends millions to subsidize excavation in Italy and restoration of monuments. The Americans cherish European art because there is so little. A drop in the bucket compared to the thousands of museums ( large and small) in Italy) that languish in cellars and attics. And are never seen, except by very few historians. Furnish American museums with your clutter (for a price of course) where can be seen by admiring American art lovers, that in turn will visit Italy to see more. Appreciate the help received by American organization that support Italy in restoration of monuments falling in disrepair.
I wonder if the small Italian museum paid to have the work in their possession or if they simply benefited at the Met’s expense. One has to remember that there wouldn’t be an art market for the public to enjoy if it weren’t for the larger museums that we all attend. Small museums are nice but rarely have a budget to put on shows that attract the public. It would have been far better to keep this work at the Met. If reproductions are so good, perhaps the small museums could have those.