Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead.
Pilon's best-known works are funerary sculptures for Henry II.
By the Old Kingdom (26th century BC to 22nd century BC), literary works included funerary texts, epistles and letters, hymns and poems, and commemorative autobiographical texts recounting the careers of prominent administrative officials.
Beginning with the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom, works of funerary literature written on tomb walls, and later on coffins, and papyri placed within tombs, were designed to protect and nurture souls in their afterlife.
In his work on Etruscan funerary imagery, de Angelis has examined the way in which the inhabitants of the cities of northern Etruria interpreted and re-fashioned the Greek mythological repertoire when using it to decorate their cinerary urns and sarcophagi.
In Vienna he worked on a funerary monument to Maria Christina (1798 1805) in the Augustinerkirche.
…sculptor whose works, particularly his funerary art, made him one of the best known of modern French sculptors.
In 1533 the artist created one of his best-known works, the alabaster funerary monument for the church of Notre-Dame at Hal, near Brussels.
But the glory of Old Kingdom mural decoration is the low-relief work in the royal funerary monuments of the 5th dynasty and in the private tombs of the 5th and 6th dynasties in the Memphite necropolis.
The scarce sources include historical accounts, juridic works, anthologies, ancient correspondences and funerary inscriptions.
