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Puritan New England funerary art
Puritan New England Funerary Art reached its peak during the 16th and 17th centuries after the arrival of English Puritans in the Colonies. These iconic images such as death’s head and the willow and the urn illustrate the simplistic artistry that the period strived towards. Reasoning for this is because after the Reformation, the English Puritans wished for greater purity and distance from the Catholic Church.
==Cultural background==
The primary objective was to extol the virtues of paradise and the transformation of the flesh to spirit. There was a distinct shift that emphasized the inappropriateness of scriptural art. The narrative style of England had changed to one of emblems. Puritans were adamantly against attributing human form to spiritual beings such as God, angels, or spirits, so iconography such as death was preferable and did not violate the second commandment.
Our modern view of death and burial recoil from the Puritan’s use of coffins, skulls, shovels, barred teeth, and empty eyes that were typically seen on gravestones. To the Puritans, these were traditional symbols brought from England. Death was to be depicted as the transformation from the flesh to the spiritual realm without the gritty naturalistic detail.
Early New England stones have emblems derived from English morality and the baroque style. Later gravestones are simpler and depict the stages between death and new life, where the soul moves from the body.
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