{"id":89,"date":"2008-01-01T20:59:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T23:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-01-01T20:59:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T23:59:39","slug":"barris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"079. barris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the red granite mausoleum of the Barris family doesn&#8217;t attract much attention, its decoration certainly does. The 1922 discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamon drove the world into an Egyptian design craze. Two-dimensional artwork &amp; emphasis on straight lines were also a perfect match for Art Deco. There are several Egyptian-inspired vaults in Recoleta Cemetery, but this is one of the most artistic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The door incorporates a little bit of everything&#8230; an eagle, a cartouche, fantastic bird-ram creatures, some Egyptians &amp; even a scarab. Probably the most relevant decoration is the &#8220;ka&#8221;\u2014two upraised arms which represent the soul or life force:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Barris, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200712C35.jpg\" alt=\"Barris, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Barris, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200707E31.jpg\" alt=\"Barris, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twin windows with papyrus &amp; a pair of dogs complete the decoration:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Barris, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200707E32.jpg\" alt=\"Barris, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"248\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the red granite mausoleum of the Barris family doesn&#8217;t attract much attention, its decoration certainly does. The 1922 discovery of the tomb of King&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=89\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">079. barris<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","tag-art-deco","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}