From the book: Heavenly Bodies by Paul Koudounaris.
“This Tudor glove has such an elegant memento mori embroidery - It's to die for!”
The Beinhaus (bone house) in Hallstatt dates back to twelve century AC. There are over 1200 skulls in the charnel, of them 610 have been painted in flowery designs, they are neatly stacked in rows along with next of kin and have the date of decease written on them.
A collection of bizarre and fascinating books for your coffee table on the preservation of death and the pursuit of eternal life.
Art historian and author Paul Koudounaris elucidates the macabre splendor and tragic history of Europe’s catacomb saints
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A relic hunter dubbed 'Indiana Bones' has lifted the lid on a macabre collection of 400-year-old jewel-encrusted skeletons unearthed in churches across
The Vatican wants end to freelance worship of saint of holy death in Mexico. Spokesman Fr. Hugo Valdemar of the Archdiocese of Mexico City is urging Mexicans to abandon the practice of venerating &…
Art historian and author Paul Koudounaris elucidates the macabre splendor and tragic history of Europe’s catacomb saints
Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.
Это все невероятное безумие обрушилось на фотографа и искусствоведа Пола Кудунариса в 2008 году. Сей немного странный калифорнийский исследователь по прозвищу Индиана Боунс (Indiana Bones) занимался изучением католических мощей, оссуариев, всяких там черепов, реликвариев и святынь. Во время…
Paul Koudounaris fotografeerde decadent versierde skeletten van dode heiligen. Glimmertjes zijn blijkbaar al eeuwen fashion.
The ultimate treatment for human remains is bejeweling the entire skeleton. This was popular during the 17th and 18th centuries in parts of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and remains of people...
Tras la fiesta del Santo Patrón, llega la resaca. y la reflexión ¿Qué tenemos de él en San Sebastián? La respuesta es poco, muy poco, apenas unos gramos
Set of twenty-two textile fragments of printed and painted cotton, Coromandel Coast, mid-18th century
Paul Koudonaris es el autor de El imperio de la muerte. Historia cultural de los osarios, un libro de H.F. Ullmann de gran formato y a color.
The Work of the Dead In the third century BCE, Diogenes the Cynic famously insisted that a corpse was mere matter, fundamentally profane and profoundly irrelevant. To emphasize his point, Diogenes…
Erik Blegvad (born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1923) passed away in January 2014. He illustrated more than one hundred books, including seven written by his wife, Lenore. His memoir, Self-Portrait, was published in 1978. Among his most well known, Mary Norton’s Bedknob and Broomstick, the fairy stories of Hans Christian Andersen, O. Henry, Myra Cohn Livingston, Judith Viorst, Jane Langton, Charlotte Zolotow and others. “His minutely detailed brush and pen drawings recalled th
Oval glass-fronted parcel gilt wood reliquary housing historically important bone relic of Saint Honestus, martyr. The relic, over 145 mm in leng...
