#procession

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Queen Guinevere’s Maying

1900

Artist : John Maler Collier (1850-1934)

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Procession, 1938 - by Ernő Vadas (1899 - 1962), Hungarian

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The Good Friday Procession. - Francesco Paolo Michetti, 1895.

Italian , 1851-1929

Oil on canvas , 85 x 92 mm.

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Circus Games in Ancient Rome by Luigi Ademollo

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Italian school (18th century), a grotesque carnival procession.

Oil on canvas, 45,7 x 38,2 cm.

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Tropea, Calabria, Italy

Photos by Domenico Garrì

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Tarasque procession in Tarascon, Provence region of France

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1907 to Paris

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Sir Harry Chauvel's horse with the rider's boots set in reverse. The horse followed the gun carriage during the funeral procession to Springvale Crematorium.

Accession Number: 087280

Maker: Lee, John

Place made: Australia: Victoria, Melbourne

Date made: 6 March 1945

Australian War Memorial

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Procession of the Holy Burial (Processó del Sant Enterrament in Catalan). It's celebrated annually on Holy Friday in the city of Tarragona, Catalonia. Over 4,000 people take part of this procession. The oldest written document that talk about this procession being done in this part of the city dates from 1550.

Photos from Tarragona Turisme.

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Excavations of two Neolithic burial mounds have revealed complex wooden graves and burial rites. These mounds were hugely symbolic in the landscape, being used for ceremonial animal sacrifices 1,000 years later.

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Silent procession, in the Alps, Italy, 1961 - by Mario DiGirolamo (1934 - 2019), Italian/American

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Pompa Circensis by Julio Borrell Pla

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Manuel Cabral Aguado-Bejarano (Spanish, 1827-1891) Procesión de Viernes Santo en Sevilla (Spanish Holy Week in Seville). La cofradía de Montserrat al comienzo de la calle Genova, 1862

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Vintage photo of women mourning the death of Christ, while they accompany the Virgin during an Easter procession.

Photo taken in Cassano Allo Ionio, Calabria, Italy by Carlo Paone in the 1980s.

Professional mourning or paid mourning is an occupation that originates from Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures. Professional mourners, also called moirologists, were compensated to lament or deliver a eulogy and help comfort and entertain the grieving family.

In ancient Egypt, the mourners would be making an ostentatious display of grief which included tearing at dishevelled hair, loud wailing, beating of exposed breasts, and smearing the body with dirt. There are many inscriptions on tombs and pyramids of crowds of people following a body throughout the funerary procession.

However, the most important of these women were the two impersonating the two godddesses Isis and Nephthys.

Isis and Nephthys were both Egyptian goddesses who were believed to play a special role when someone died. They were to be impersonated as a mourning ritual by professional mourners. In most inscriptions seen, one of them is at either end of the corpse.

Meanwhile, Ancient Greek mourners were known as moirologists. In true Greek fashion, it was a position that added a dramatic flair to funerary practices. Moirologists gave performances that represented the life of the deceased, and they led chants with cries and wails to honor the dead.

In Roman history, mourners were hired to accompany funerary rituals and were often thought to be theatrical. In early history the public mourners, called praeficiae, would follow musicians in a funeral procession to sing for the dead.

Reports of the survival of this use occur in even more recent times in Southern Italy, especially in Sicily, Apulia and Calabria, where until the 1980s, in some mountain villages of the hinterlands, it was possible to witness such harrowing scenes.

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