Tag: egyptian revival
Posted on May 14, 2017
by Caroline
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Sheffield, in south Yorkshire, is famous around the world as a centre of steel production – stainless steel was invented in the city in 1912 and many thousands of the city’s residents worked in crucibles and factories producing steel and steel products such as…
Posted on April 23, 2017
by Caroline
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Most of the grand mausolea we see in Victorian cemeteries are private spaces, accessible only to the families of those interred within or blocked off and sealed forever to keep vandals out. However, today we are visiting a mausoleum with an unusual story attached…
Posted on April 16, 2016
by Caroline
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A few weeks ago, I went to Brompton Cemetery again. I was with my friend Sharon, a fellow graveyard explorer, and I also had a new camera lens to put through its paces. Since my last visit, a lot of the undergrowth that had…
Category: 19th Century, 20th Century, ChelseaTags: archaeology, battle of waterloo, brompton cemetery, conspiracies, egyptian revival, funerary symbolism, Graveyards, hannah courtoy, joseph bonomi, london's magnificent seven, mausolea, memorials, military history
Posted on March 26, 2016
by Caroline
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Cimetière de Montmartre, in Paris’ 18th arrondissement, did not have the most glamorous or auspicious of beginnings. It was originally a gypsum quarry, situated outside of the city walls, and after the quarry was abandoned, a section of it was used as a mass…
Category: 18th arrondissement, 19th Century, 20th CenturyTags: albert bartholomé, ambroise louis garnerey, cats, cimetière de montmartre, edgar degas, egyptian revival, emile zola, funerary symbolism, Graveyards, mausolea, Paris, vaslav nijinsky
Posted on August 21, 2015
by Caroline
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Highgate is London’s famous cemetery – it’s the one that most people think of first when Victorian cemeteries are mentioned and it’s the most well known of the “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries that date from the early Victorian period. Its location on a hillside overlooking…
Category: 19th Century, HighgateTags: alexander litvinenko, christina rossetti, dante gabriel rossetti, egyptian revival, elizabeth siddal, film locations, funerary symbolism, Graveyards, highgate, highgate cemetery, london, london's magnificent seven
Posted on March 15, 2015
by Caroline
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One of the things that has always appealed to me about the big Victorian cemeteries is their sense of drama, and their grand, elaborate memorials. Of course, there’s nothing new about the moneyed commissioning ostentatious memorials for themselves and their loved ones, but in…