Resting Places

Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Cemetery Wall
ca. 1965
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Anonymous German Artist
Priest officiating at Burial
1508
woodcut and letterpress
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

René-Henri Ravaut
Burial of St Bertrand de Comminges
ca. 1890
Falconetto-
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Dirck van Delen
Tomb of the Van Tuyll van Serooskerken family
1634
oil on panel
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Angelo Falconetto
Tomb for a Writer
before 1567
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Paul Bril
Etruscan Tomb in Latium
ca. 1600
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Battista dell'Angolo del Moro after Parmigianino
Tomb of a Bishop
ca. 1550-70
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Peter Fendi
Recording Angel seated on a Grave
1824
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Friedrich Preller the Elder
Megalithic Grave on Rügen
1843
oil on canvas
Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg

attributed to Jacques Stella
The Entombment
ca. 1620-40
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Mathieu Le Nain
The Entombment
ca. 1645
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Giovanni Santi
(father of the famous Raphael)
Dead Christ in the Tomb with Symbols of the Passion
ca. 1474-82
oil on panel
Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

Taddeo di Bartolo
Entombment of the Virgin
ca. 1410
tempera on panel
Landesmuseum Hannover

Ancient Etruscan Culture
Cinerary Coffer
125-100 BC
terracotta
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Roman Empire
Cinerary Urn
AD 20-40
marble
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Roman Empire
Cinerary Urn
1st century AD
marble
(excavated 1760 in Rome - subsequently engraved by Piranesi)
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

Queen:  Aiai, this is truly the most towering disaster I have ever heard of, a cause for shame and for shrill wailing to the Persians!  But go back to the beginning and tell me this: how great were the actual numbers of the Greek ships, that they thought themselves capable of joining battle with the Persian fleet and ramming their vessels?  

Messenger:  I assure you that, so far as numbers are concerned, the fleet of the Easterners would have prevailed.  The Greeks had a grand total of about three hundred ships, and ten of those formed a special select squadron; whereas Xerxes – I know this for sure – had a thousand under his command, and those of outstanding speed numbered two hundred and seven.  Such is the reckoning; I hardly imagine you'll consider we were inferior in that respect in the battle!  It was some divinity that destroyed our fleet like this, weighting the scales so that fortune did not fall out even: the gods have served the city of the goddess Pallas.  

Queen:  Then the city of Athens is still unsacked?

Messenger:  While she has her men, her defences are secure.

– Aeschylus, from Persians (472 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)