Description: 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 book brings 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 wealthy 1960s 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.
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EAN: 9780500251782
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Book Title: The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuari
Item Length: 31 cm
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Empire of Death: a Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: History
Item Height: 305 mm
Item Weight: 1560 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Paul Koudounaris
Item Width: 225 mm
Format: Hardcover
