HAA 153m

The Art of Death: Funerary Monuments in the Mediterranean
Felipe Pereda
Tuesday, 1-3pm
Funerary art is a type of monumental sculpture that was systematically produced around the Mediterranean since Antiquity, through the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern –Renaissance and Baroque—period. From medieval royal tombs to the Escorial, this is a story about some of its most spectacular creations. This seminar will look into the continuities and discontinuities of this “long story” within the geographical frame of the Mediterranean, but focusing on some particular examples, mostly from the Iberian Peninsula. The seminar will explore the relation of art history to memory, and the ways the artistic imagination both reflected and also articulated ideas of the afterlife.