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T1 Cemeteries as Museums, Museums as Cemeteries: Exhibiting Funerary Sculpture in Spain, ca. 1880 to the present
A1 Sharpe, Chloe Marie Monique
A2 Rossi Vairo, Giulia
A2 Ramôa Melo, Joana
A2 Vilhena de Carvalho, Maria João
AB The nineteenth-century idea that cemeteries are 'museums of sculpture’ has, today, become a cliché, and is often used as away of packaging a visitor experience which is otherwise difficult to classify or sell. This paper critically examines some of the interrelations and differences between these two institutions - cemetery and museum - as spaces for the exhibition of figurative sculpture in Spain, focusing on the powerful fact that cemeteries are repositories not only of sculpted bodies, but of dead ones. I discuss how funerary sculpture was adapted and re-worked for exhibition in conventional art spaces, and consider the corresponding shifts in meaning. I also examine examples of highly 'mobile' works of funerary sculpture, which have been repeatedly de-contextualised and re-contextualised as they have moved between cemeteries, museums and art exhibitions, gaining or losing real bodies in the process.
PB Instituto de Estudos Medievais
SN 978-989-54529-1-0
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112859
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112859
LA eng
NO Sharpe, Chloe (2019). “Cemeteries as Museums, Museums as Cemeteries: Exhibiting Funerary Sculpture in Spain, ca. 1880 to the present.” En Almas de Pedra. Escultura Funerária: da Criação à Musealização, ed. Giulia Rossi Vairo et al. Lisboa: Instituto de Estudos Medievais, pp. 281-291. ISBN: 978-989-54529-1-0.
NO Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)
NO Fundação Millennium BCP
NO Universidad en Lisboa
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025