FAH101H1 Lecture Notes - Otto Demus, Damnatio Memoriae, Ponte Milvio
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Tombstones aren"t for the dead but for the living. Furanary figures perpetrates the dead into our society and secures the continuity if not the perpetuity of that individual for the world to come and commerates it for the living. Ex. plastered skill from jericho c, 7000 bc. The image can take place as a portrait or a simulacrum or can depict a portrait according to the historical conventions of similitude and resemblance. The criteria for the realism of these portraits depends on the social conditions. Constantine the great ( idealized) v. s sculptures made after real people. Sculpture that has been ritually buried ** Statues from the abu temple carrying beakers. Did not distinguish between body and soul. They believed that the was a force called ka that feeds on bodies and lives of the dead corpses so they preserved dead bodies. They kept food, clothing, utensils in the grave. King khafre- sculptures created abdobes for the ka.
