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At the cemetery in Almere Haven is this grave of a young boy who passed away at fourteen. My attention was attracted by the beautiful dolfin rising up from the sea. This cemetery is in my hometown and is a very well preserved green place with lots of trees.

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Another sculpture at the cemetery Staglione in Genoa, Italy as I have shown before many times. I like the way she holds her apron with the drapes and let flowers fall down. Somebody gave her even a real one or maybe it is plastic. See for more Taphophile Tragics here

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In the Tropical Museum in Amsterdam is an exhibition "Death Matters", about how people around the world deal with death, saying goodbye, grieve and remember.  In the end there was this Memorial Wall where people could  write a message to a passed love one and hang it on the wall.

It was quite interesting and impressive, in fact we went for another exhibition and watched this one by accident.

Here you can watch a short impression of the exhibition.

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Many cemeteries in France have portraits of the death on the tombstone. It makes it very personal and I must admit I am curious to look at the persons images.

These pictures are all made in Saint-Paul-deVence in the South of France.

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Don't know what to think about this grave in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the South of  France. Is it a bed, a stretcher?  Anyway it is different from the usual tombs.

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At the Staglione cemetery in Genoa this sculpture in one of the galleries was so unusual. Not so dramatic as all the others but such a touching little girl sitting on the tomb in what looks like sand.

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In contrast to the not se well maintained grave of Marc Chagall of last week post, the other graves in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, cemetery in France were covered with all kind of flowers, stained ones and fresh ones.

I think their relatives still live close to the cemetery to keep the flowers fresh.

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Saint-Paul-de-Vence is a beautiful little city in the South of  France where many artists live and sell their work. The ramparts date from 1536.

Their deaths are burried at a cemetery just outside the ramparts with a magnificent view over the surroundings.

The famous painter Marc Chagall is burried here. He was a Russian born Jewish painter who moved to Paris because of the difficult circumstances jewish people had to live in. During WWII he fled to the US, but returned to Europe in 1946. Since 1950 he lived in St-Paul-de-Vence.

 His grave was a bit disappointing, and I couldn't get a good picture of it. It is just a simple white tombe without ornaments, but not se well maintained.

His name was hardly to see but he was born in 1887 and died in 1985 when he was 97 years old. The name Brodsky is of his second wife, probably Michel was a brother in law or a child of his wife who is burried here too.

As a Jewish custom little pebbles are laid on the tombe by visitors to pay their respect and to remember him.

Marc Chagall in his studio in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

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Today I will show you the cemetery Staglione in Genoa, Italy again. This is the new part with recent graves. In the back behind the trees,  you can see the galleries I showed you last week,

The recent graves are much more simple than the ones from 1800.

To reach the higher parts, we had to climb huge stairs.

Against the hills, behind the trees, were more graves in little houses, but we didn't make it so high. Some members of our group did so and they saw an impressive grave of the "Ferrari family".

Everything was so huge, look at this statue at the entrance. Next week I will show you some last photos.

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At the cemetery Staglione in Genoa, Italy are endless galeries with graves on both sides. Each grave is decorated with sculptures.

It is almost like walking through a museum.

During the centuries the sculptures are covered with dust, because the galeries are open to the air. I got the feeling to remove the dust but that is not possible anymore, it has gone into the stone.

The scenes are all very dramatic, families grieving for their lost ones.

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I continue with the cemetery Staglione in Genoa, Italy.  Last week we had the adonis, this week the ladies. Several tombs had a grieving lady on it. It is no angel as I first thought because she has no wings.

This one looked a bit scary, almost like a corpse on the tomb.

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As I mentioned last week I visited the cemetery Staglione in Genoa Italy which dates from 1851 and has very much sculptures on the graves which are rather dramatic. But who wouldn't have this Adonis on his gravestone? He seems to be overwhelmed by grief.

I like the Italian theatrical outings.

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 The cemetery Staglieno in Genoa Italy is gigantic with sculptures at almost any grave. It dates from 1851 and fills 160 hectares. There is a even shuttlebus to drive people around. I was stunned by the realistic and exuberant sculptures, it was like you walked through the lives of the people. This one I suppose was a father of a young family as there are little children surrounding him, or maybe the grandfather. There was no further information, only the family name.

The sculpturers are made with so much details. The children seem to play with water.

It looks like she is playing with ducks.

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Taphophile Tragics # 14

This is a little cemetery from 1670 near the Jan Mabie House, the oldest house still standing in the Mohawk Valley in the US. The graves must be of the residents of the house during the centuries, I only could decode 1790 on a grave, the others are hardly visible.

The 300 year old Dutch farm was originally settled by Daniel Janse van Antwerpen, who established it as a fur trading post to meet Native American traders before they reached Schenectady. He received a deed for the property in 1671 from the English governor. In 1706, Van Antwerpen sold the farm to Jan Pieterse Mabie and it was handed down through the Mabie family for 287 years.

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Taphophile Tragics # 12

In 2009 I visited the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum at Hyde Park, NY.  The president is buried here on the family estate Springwood in the Rose Garden together with his wife Eleanor.

In the garden is a lovely sculpture of the two, Franklin was born in 1882 and died in 1945, Eleanor was born in 1884 and died in 1962. He was the 32-nd president of the US from 1933-1945.

The family home of Franklin.

 In 1921 Franklin felt ill with poliomyelitis which paralysed his lower torso. He had to use a wheelchair and for that reason another house was built on the estate which had no stairs. The museum is in here and is very interesting with all kind of personal things and the original decorated rooms. Have a look here.

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