Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography

ISBN-10
1567317766
ISBN-13
9781567317763
Series
Stories in Stone
Category
Sepulchral monuments
Language
English
Published
2004

Description

Cemeteries are full of symbolism - some obvious, such as the cross of Christianity, others more subtle, like clasped hands or a broken rose. This book, filled with detailed colored photographs, acts as a field guide to a variety of common, and not so-common, images on tombstones and mausoleums. Limited to cemetaries of the Americas and parts of Western Europe and organized into sections: Funerary Architecture, Flora, Fauna, The Human Condition, Mortality Symbols, Religious Devotion, Secret Societies and Final Impressions.

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