Tóth Vilmos: Funeral Art - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2006)

Funeral Arts in the 19th Century

■ Lőrinc Dunaiózky: the Pi&tori-Dulitzky Monument

while exemplifying the changes that the forms of sepulchral art underwent in the second half of the 19th century.

The large-scale appearance of middle-class family vaults where they had been a rarity before, as well as the placement of some kind of monument above the final resting place of the deceased, marked radical changes in funeral practices. Due to the impact of Romanticism and the preponderance of the German-speaking segment of the bourgeoisie, the Neo-Gothic tombstone emerged as a characteristic type of sepulchral furniture of the mid-i9th century, and it was in the same period that the ancient form of the obelisk enjoyed temporary dominance. Sepulchres, at least those in use in the funeral practices of the elite, grew more monumental. In the process, the architectural structure came to dominate the sculptural component, which is why several works cannot be attributed to any individual master.

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