Architecture and the After-Life

By Howard Colvin

The Pyramids and the Taj Mahal are witness to the extravagant architectural tributes that, throughout human history, the great and the wealthy have paid to their dead. In this book, an architectural historian provides a history of funerary architecture in western Europe from the earliest megalithic tombs of prehistory to the establishment of public cemeteries in the 19th century. The author traces the ways in which these structures represent changing ideas about the after-life as well as changes in architectural style.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300050984
• ISBN13: 9780300050981
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.2" x 10.5"