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The Empire of Death
A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
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Artikel-Nr:
9780500251782
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.10.2011
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Paul Koudounaris
Gewicht:
1608 g
Format:
316x235x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Nach der Erlangung seines Doktortitels der Kunstgeschichte an der Universität von Kalifornien in Los Angeles veröffentlichte Paul Koudounaris zahlreiche Artikel sowohl in akademischen wie auch populärwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften.
In this tour de force of original cultural history, Paul Koudounaris takes the reader on an unprecedented international tour of macabre and devotional architectural masterpieces in nearly 20 countries. This is the first book to bring together the world's most important charnel sites, ranging from the crypts of the Capuchin monasteries in Italy and the skull-encrusted columns of the ossuary in Évora in Portugal, to the strange tomb of a 1960s wealthy Peruvian nobleman decorated with the exhumed skeletons of his Spanish ancestors. Illustrated with specially taken photographs of sites rarely open to the public and forgotten archive images of others long destroyed, this mesmerising, shocking and deeply moving book is an essential memento mori for our modern age.
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