The ceramic memory beyond death. Tile panels and funerary plates from the 18th and 19th centuries

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Beatriu Navarro i Buenaventura
Josep Lluís Cebrián i Molina

We studied a set of plates and funerary tombstones of tiles made in the Valencian factories during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They are located in cemeteries and churches of various populations or preserved in museums. Same of the most outstanding artists of the moment –Joan Bru, Josep Sanchis, Joan Ortiz, Miquel Mollà or Francesc Dasí– painted excellent funerary compositions that are still preserved.

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Glazed tiles; ceramic painting; funerary art; eighteenth century; nineteenth century.

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Navarro i Buenaventura, Beatriu; Cebrián i Molina, Josep Lluís. “The ceramic memory beyond death. Tile panels and funerary plates from the 18th and 19th centuries”. Recerques del Museu d’Alcoi, 2019, vol.VOL 1, no. 28, pp. 167-86, https://raco.cat/index.php/RecerquesMuseuAlcoi/article/view/363675.