Watch the entire videos entitled Death (No. 6) from the “Art Through Time: A Global View”video series found on Annenberg.org

Watch the entire videos entitled Death (No. 6) from the “Art Through Time: A Global View”video series found on Annenberg.org

Watch the entire videos entitled Death (No. 6) from the “Art Through Time: A Global View”video series found on Annenberg.org

Then, in your own words, answers one of the questions below (your choice) in AT LEAST 150-200 words its ok if you go over a little. Provide examples from the video (include artist name and title of the work) to illustrate your response. In order to best express your ideas, please write all answers in complete sentences using proper spelling and punctuation.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
IN THE TITLE OF YOUR POSTING, INCLUDE THE QUESTION NUMBER YOU CHOOSED AND A WORD OR TWO ABOUT ITS CONTENT. THEN, IN YOUR POSTING, BEGIN BY RE-STATING THE ENTIRE QUESTION FROM THE LIST BELOW.

1. Of the examples featured in the program, which of the death-related rituals, ceremonies, and funerary art were created for the living, and which were created for the deceased?

2. A memento mori is an image that serves as a reminder of the inevitability of death and the transience of human life. While different types of images have served this purpose, skulls and skeletal figures are seen in the art of different cultures. In viewing the featured art images in the program, how do the skulls or skeletons in these works reflect different cultural views of life and death?

3. Certain objects were buried along with the deceased, such as the Book of the Dead in ancient Egypt, or the terracotta warriors buried with the Qin Emperor of China. What were the intended purposes of these objects?

Please respond to one other student with 5-7sentence if you agree, disagree or try to either challenge or expand on what it is that they say to their post and explain why

Ana R

Certain objects were buried along with the deceased, such as the Book of the Dead in ancient Egypt, or the terracotta warriors buried with the Qin Emperor of China. What were the intended purposes of these objects? The Book of the Death in the ancient Egypt was buried along with the deceased because they believed that it existed an afterlife. In a way the book was crucial when it care to a burial, it was mentioned that the reason to bring the Book of Death was because it was a guidebook to another world. Egyptians believed that the deceased might use the book whenever they faced trouble or an obstacle and that it will eventually help. As for the other example of the terracotta warriors buried with the Qin Emperor of China, the warriors were there to represent an entire universe or world inside the tomb. The life size terracotta warriors were there to serve and protect the death, as it was mentioned in the video there were different warriors such as infantry, charioteers, and generals. It is amazing what they did with the tomb of Qin Emperor all the warriors were formed as if they were in real life.