B, life after death. Their belief in life after death led to the creation of funerary art objects because they believed that the deceased could take whatever luck or talisman was in those paintings or sculptures on into the afterlife.
Egyptians believe in afterlife led to the creation of funerary art objects for the burial site. According to the Egyptians, death was an interruption which can continue in the afterlife. Pharaohs and Queens, along with wealthy nobles preserved their body after death so that the soul could enter their body in an afterlife. Lots of funerary art objects placed in the burial sites for another journey. Canopic jars along with jewelry, ivories, ceramics, wood and other objects were placed with the preserved body.
The artist is Pablo Picasso. The painting is called Guernica. Spain's government commissioned Picasso to paint it for the 1937 Paris International Exposition.
