Monument to the Dead

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Monument to the Dead, stone sculpture by Albert Bartholomé, 1895; in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

Monument to the Dead

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Albert Bartholomé
His reputation was established with Monument to the Dead (1895) in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, a piece of architectural sculpture on a grand scale. Composed as a two-story wall monument with a procession of people entering the “door of death” over a niche where a nude young family clings to…
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His reputation was established with Monument to the Dead (1895) in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, a piece of architectural sculpture on a grand scale. Composed as a two-story wall monument with a procession of people entering the “door of death” over a niche where a nude young family clings to…
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