A Burial At Ornns Analysis

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A Burial at Ornans is a much gloomier painting showing what appears to be a funeral on a cloudy day. Mourners, priests, bishops, and a dog are shown standing in front of a dug graved--- a grave that is slightly shown at the bottom corner next to a man kneeling down. In contrast to The Stone Breakers, the faces of the people are shown in a sorrowful emotion. Despite being a religious painting, this is not the kind of religious paintings where religious figures and creatures are shown in contrast to classical and romantic paintings would feature such as angels, devils, Jesus Christ, or Mother Mary. Burial at Ornans gives a glimpse of how normal it was for people to mourn in a funeral and it is quite obvious to tell by how Courbet uses darker