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The Last Breath
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The Last Breath is one of the genre paintings depicting the lives of fishermen and their families for which Jozef Israëls was best known. In this scene, a woman is weeping over the body of her husband…

Contributor:

Jozef Israëls

Places:

The Hague, Netherlands

Date:

1872

Subjects:

Painting, Art, Death, Family, Mourning

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Painting
Painting of interior scene with woman throwing herself over the pale body of a man while an older woman watches two children.
Mourning Activities
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Mourning activities, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1380 BCE. Sitting on the ground and putting dust on the head are expressions of mourning, as in this mural showing a widow with the mummy of her husband…

Places:

Thebes, Egypt (Luxor, Egypt)

Date:

ca. 1380 BCE

Subjects:

Mourning, Family, Archaeology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Mural of crouching woman with hand on her head next to upright mummy held up by figure in tunic, as another figure in tunic raises arms above woman, with hieroglyphic text in background.