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Ossuaries

Images

  • Skulls and bones of friars, looking towards the altar of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome: skulls and skeletons of the friars arranged in arches and columns around the walls of the Convento dei Cappuccini. Photograph.
  • Skulls and skeletons of friars arranged columns around the walls of a chapel. Photograph.
  • Gentlemen visiting the vaults in the Capuchin tombs of Palermo. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after Cooper Willyams.
  • Skeletons of priests (?), preserved and standing in rows wearing robes and berettas, depicted in a painting. Photograph.
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Catalogue

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    Memento mori : the dead among us / Paul Koudounaris.

    Koudounaris, Paul | Date: 2015
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    Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome: skulls and skeletons of the friars arranged in arches and columns around the walls of the Convento dei Cappuccini. Photograph.

    | Date: [1900?] | Reference: 664121i
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    The empire of death : a cultural history of ossuaries and charnel houses / Paul Koudounaris.

    Koudounaris, Paul. | Date: 2011
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    The skeleton of a friar in the role of Death as the reaper, surrounded by skulls, ribs and vertebrae, in a chapel. Photograph.

    | Date: [1900?] | Reference: 664123i
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    The vaults of the Capuchin tombs in Palermo. Wood engraving by E. de S.

    De S., E. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 44436i
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