Posts Tagged ‘ohio’
Tomb sculptures wordless Wednesday
Posted in Angels, Cemetery Sculpture, tagged angel, cleveland, cleveland museum of art, grave art, ohio, sculpture, statues, wordless wednesday on March 13, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Iranian tombstone
Posted in Graveless memorials, tagged cleveland, cleveland museum of art, grave art, ohio, qur'an, sculpture on March 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The tombstone of Shaikh al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn al-Hasan is in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Carved from limestone, it dates to 1110. The carvings include not only the name of the deceased and his death date, but verses from the Qur’an.
Orestes Sarcophagus
Posted in Graveless memorials, tagged cleveland, cleveland museum of art, grave art, ohio, sarcophagus, sculpture on March 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Mourner statues
Posted in Graveless memorials, tagged cleveland, cleveland musuem of art, grave art, ohio, sculpture, statues on March 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
In further evidence that I can find funerary monuments anywhere, I took a number of photos of mourner statues at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This statue is from the tomb of Philip the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy. The statue is about 600 years old, dating to the first decade of the 15th century. And those of you who know my other passion for prayer beads, he’s also holding a set of prayer beads.
Lewis Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, cleveland, lake view cemetery, occupation, ohio, soldier, tombstone tales, veteran, wordless wednesday, world war i, wwi on February 20, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Joy
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged cleveland, grave art, lake view cemetery, ohio, porcelain portrait, portrait on February 19, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Anyone who’s been following along here for a length of time will know that porcelain portraits are on my list of “coolest things to have on a headstone.” Most porcelain portraits are clearly drawn from posed, often professional portraits, but every once in a while, a family chooses a photo that you can’t help but smile back at.
I will always take care of you
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, grave art, lake view cemetery, ohio, sculpture on February 18, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Presented by his comrades of the First Pursuit Group
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, cleveland, lake view cemetery, occupation, ohio, pilot, us history, world war i, wwi on February 17, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Captain Burt E. Skeel died while representing the Army Air Service in the International Air Race at Wilbur Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. He crashed in front of spectators when the wings came off his plane. A native of East Cleveland, Ohio, Skeel had served in World War I, starting in the infantry and then transferring to the Air Service, where he remained as a pilot after the war.
Maurer Maurer.
Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919-1939.
Peter Vischer, “When Men Race with Death to Make the Air Safe.” Popular Science. January 1925.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Well, just one lion.
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Statues, tagged cleveland, grave art, lake view cemetery, ohio, sculpture, statue on February 14, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
This monument was put in sometime very recently, because it was not erected yet the last time I visited Lake View Cemetery, but it was there when I traveled there Martin Luther King, Jr., weekend.
Wilson Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, history, lake view cemetery, marine, ohio, okinawa, veteran, wordless wednesday, world war ii, wwii on February 13, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
