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Catacombs

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.
  • Memphis, Egypt: English travellers trapped in catacombs find the bodies of two Italian men who had previously been trapped there, and had starved to death: they fire their pistols at six ghostly figures; Arabs steal their horses. Etching with engraving by E. Kirkall, 1709.
  • Gentlemen carrying torches visiting catacombs in Paris. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.
  • Skulls and skeletons of friars arranged columns around the walls of a chapel. Photograph.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Memento mori : the dead among us / Paul Koudounaris.

    Koudounaris, Paul | Date: 2015
    • Books

    Livor mortis zine : hype in the hypogeum. #1.

    Ruttley, Stephen | Date: 2017
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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
    • Pictures
    • Online

    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
    • Books
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    Grisly relics of the dead : where some gruesome memorials are to be found.

    | Date: [1899?]
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