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Simple Vault The most common tomb style in city’ cemeteries is a simple stone slab that covers a vault. Vaults are usually lined with cement and most vaults have …
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Columbarium, Pere-Lachaise Chapelles are small-scale mausoleums that can be seen throughout city cemeteries. The minimausoleums are great places to study architecture in diminutive form Chapelle-style tomb, Pere-Lachaise Exedrae These …
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Art Deco, Pere-Lachaise With the modern age has come a lack of ornament and hard, clean lines. By now, the age of ornament has passed (although, from time to …
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Modern Classicism, Pere-Lachaise Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century from this architectural morass was Art Nouveau. The style had a relatively short run on the scale of …
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Gothic, Montmartre Not all architecture fits into the customary architectural styles. Architects often blended totally unrelated styles and sometimes created styles of their own. At the end of the …
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Egyptian Revival, Cavetto Cornice, Vulture Wings and Cobras, Auteuil Another very popular form of Egyptian architecture in the cemetery is the obelisk, which is representative of a ray of …
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Castrum doloris of Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne at Saint-Denis Egyptian is perhaps the most funerary of all architecture. After all, almost all architecture in ancient Egypt had …
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Grottos There are also a number of rock assemblages in cemeteries known as grottos. These monuments are miniature cave-like chapels containing small altars and religious statuary. Grottos are often …