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Page 537
... images preserved the memory of the dead and offerings of food and drink were regularly made . In China , an elaborate ancestor cult flourished . The an- cestral shrine contained tablets , inscribed with the names of ancestors , which ...
... images preserved the memory of the dead and offerings of food and drink were regularly made . In China , an elaborate ancestor cult flourished . The an- cestral shrine contained tablets , inscribed with the names of ancestors , which ...
Page 538
... images are obviously careful portraits , but whether they had some magical use as substitute bodies or are only commemorative is unknown . Roman funerary images seem to have been essentially commemorative , as were those of Palmyra ...
... images are obviously careful portraits , but whether they had some magical use as substitute bodies or are only commemorative is unknown . Roman funerary images seem to have been essentially commemorative , as were those of Palmyra ...
Page 542
... Images , two sets ( 1905 and 1907 ) ; Children's Corner ( 1908 ) ; Douze Préludes , two books ( 1910 and 1913 ) ; Douze Études , two books ( 1915 ) . TWO PIANOS : En blanc et noir ( 1915 ) . Orchestral music Prélude à l'après - midi d ...
... Images , two sets ( 1905 and 1907 ) ; Children's Corner ( 1908 ) ; Douze Préludes , two books ( 1910 and 1913 ) ; Douze Études , two books ( 1915 ) . TWO PIANOS : En blanc et noir ( 1915 ) . Orchestral music Prélude à l'après - midi d ...
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