The Empire of Death

Informationen zum Autor Paul Koudounaris has a doctorate in Art History from the University of California and has written widely on European ossuaries and charnel houses for both academic and popular journals. Klappentext From bone fetishism in the ancient world to painted skulls in Austria and Bavaria: an unusual and compelling work of cultural history. Zusammenfassung Takes the reader on an international tour of macabre and devotional architectural masterpieces in nearly 20 countries. This book brings together some of the world's most important charnel sites, ranging from the crypts of the Capuchin monasteries in Italy, to the strange tomb of a 1960s wealthy Peruvian nobleman. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Dialogue with Death . 1. Ars Moriendi: The Early Charnel Houses . 2. The Golden Age: Counter-Reformation Macabre . 3. The Triumph of Death: Nineteenth-Century Visions in Bone . 4. Heavenly Souls: Spiritualism and Mythology in The Bone Pile . 5. Forget Me Not: Ossuaries as Commemorative Sites . 6. Resurrecting the Dead: Conservation and Reconstruction

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From bone fetishism in the ancient world to painted skulls in Austria and Bavaria: an unusual and compelling work of cultural history.

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Takes the reader on an international tour of macabre and devotional architectural masterpieces in nearly 20 countries. This book brings together some of the world's most important charnel sites, ranging from the crypts of the Capuchin monasteries in Italy, to the strange tomb of a 1960s wealthy Peruvian nobleman.

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Introduction: A Dialogue with Death . 1. Ars Moriendi: The Early Charnel Houses . 2. The Golden Age: Counter-Reformation Macabre . 3. The Triumph of Death: Nineteenth-Century Visions in Bone . 4. Heavenly Souls: Spiritualism and Mythology in The Bone Pile . 5. Forget Me Not: Ossuaries as Commemorative Sites . 6. Resurrecting the Dead: Conservation and Reconstruction