The Photographs of M. V. Adler

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SISTERS OF SORROW There can be no more permanent symbol of bereavement than the funerary statue. These angels and classical figures were an important art form in the nineteenth century. Although the people commemorated by these monuments are forgotten today, and although the survivors who mourned them are themselves long gone, the statues stand guard... frozen marble witnesses to the lives lived and the grief of those left behind. {Click on any image for a larger view. Fast Connection? Click here to begin.}