Published: 2021-07-31

“To see the deceased… a window had to be cut in the coffin”. On the origins of the coffin portrait

Aleksander Jankowski
Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
Section: Studies and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM69.2021.1.004

Abstract

The article concerns the coffin portrait, i.e. a portrait of the deceased person painted on a tin plate, attached to the coffin for the exequies. The author addresses this phenomenon, characteristic of the art and culture of death in the Old-Polish era, and related research questions, explaining its origin, chronology and functions in the Sarmatian customs of the early modern period.

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Old-Polish culture, coffin portrait, castrum doloris, exequies, funeral ceremony, pompa funebris, archimimus, funerary panegyric

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Jankowski, A. (2021). “To see the deceased… a window had to be cut in the coffin”. On the origins of the coffin portrait. Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 69(1), 57–74. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM69.2021.1.004

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