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Editor: This page of sketches by John Flaxman, dating from around the late 18th or early 19th century, shows various funerary monuments. They feel so neoclassical in their spareness. What do you see in these drawings? Curator: Flaxman’s focus on funerary art speaks volumes about societal attitudes towards death and memory during a time of revolution and upheaval. How do these idealized forms either reinforce or challenge existing power structures? Editor: So, the simplicity could be a commentary on social class? Curator: Perhaps. It’s worth considering how these images, even as sketches, engage with the visual language of mourning and commemoration, and whose stories they might be prioritizing, or even silencing. Editor: That's a great point. I’ll definitely look at Flaxman's work through a more critical lens now.