Description
This illuminating and original book is the first to examine eighteenth-century British funeral monuments in their social, as well as their artistic, context, looking not only at the sculptors who created the monuments, but also the people who commissioned them and the people they commemorated. Matthew Craske begins by analyzing the relationship of tomb designs to the changing and diverse culture of death in eighteenth-century England, and then explains conditions of production and the shifting dynamics of the market. He concludes with a masterly analysis of the motivations of the people who commissioned monuments, from aristocrats to merchants and professional people.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
About the Author
Matthew Craske is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at Oxford Brookes University
Book Information
ISBN 9780300135411
Author Matthew Craske
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
Weight(grams) 2041g
