Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe : Contemplation and Commemoration in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania.

Intro -- Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe: Contemplation and Commemoration in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Proper Names -- List of Maps and Figures -- Glossary -- Introduction: The Central European Age of Contemplation and Commemoration -- 1: Frameworks for Visual Cultures of Death in Poland-Lithuania -- Artistic Patronage in Poland-Lithuania -- The Commonwealth and the Counter-Reformation -- The Central European Printing Revolution -- Plague and Warfare -- Conclusion -- 2: Death Personified: The Skeleton and the Printed Image -- Anatomical Treatises and the Melancholy Death -- The Triumph of Death -- Allegories of Death: The Wheel of Death -- Conclusion -- 3: The Dance of Death in Central Europe: Indigenous Variations on a Familiar Theme -- Dancing with Death in Medieval Western Europe and beyond -- Performing the Dance of Death in Medieval Poland: Master Polikarpus's Dialogue with Death -- Death and the Friars: The Role of the Observant Franciscans -- Conclusion -- 4: Triumphant Funerals: Ceremonial, Coffin Portraits and Catafalques -- Processional Pomp: Heraldic Displays and the Theatre of Death -- Church Decorations and the Castrum Doloris -- Coffin Portraits: Images of the Spiritual body -- Commemoration in Context: The Burials of the Opaliński Magnate Family -- Conclusion -- 5: Architectures and Landscapes of Death: Funerary Chapels and Jerusalem Sites -- The Introduction of the Domed Chapel to Poland and Lithuania: Genesis and Symbolism -- Central European Landscapes of Death: Jerusalem Sites -- Decorating the Seventeenth-century Funerary Chapel: Sculpting the Passion and Personalising the Dance of Death -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Kraków Taniec śmierci (Dance of Death): Transcription and Translation of Textual Cartouches -- Bibliography.

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In Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones examines the remarkable cultural preoccupation with death in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795), through a range of Baroque artworks such as coffin portraits, funerary decorations, tomb chapels and religious landscapes.

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