Death and Architecture

by Curl, James Stevens

• ISBN13: 9780750928779
• ISBN10: 0750928778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square

Summary

Richly illustrated with over 350 photographs, plans and engravings, this fascinating and unusual book examines the importance of funerary architecture in the development of architectural style. It reveals many hidden wonders and beauties throughout the world.

Author Biography

James Stevens Curl is Professor of Architectural History at The Queen's University of Belfast.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Illustrations	xvii
Acknowledgements	xxiii
Introduction	xxvii
The importance of the architecture and artefacts of death in ancient cultures	1	(20)
The buildings, cemeteries, gardens, and sculptures associated with death in the Graeco-Roman world	21	(48)
The flowering of funerary art in the Middle Ages	69	(35)
The Renaissance and Baroque periods of funerary architecture associated with churches, and their aftermath	104	(31)
The burial crisis; overcrowded churchyards; the first fruits of reform; and the first modern cemeteries	135	(33)
Mausolea and other buildings to celebrate death, from the Renaissance period to the twentieth century	168	(38)
The development of cemeteries in Great Britain in the nineteenth century	206	(38)
John Claudius Loudon and the Garden Cemetery Movement	244	(21)
Other great nineteenth-century cemeteries in Europe, America, and Australia	265	(34)
Problems of disposal: the development of cremation and of buildings associated with the burning of the dead	299	(16)
War cemeteries and memorials	315	(23)
Some grander buildings to celebrate individuals and national events	338	(19)
Epilogue	357	(11)
Notes	368	(10)
Select Bibliography	378	(22)
Index	400