Subterranean passageways used as burial place

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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.

Corpses standing against the walls of catacombs at Guanajuato, Mexico. Process print after C.C. Pierce & Co.

The burial vault of the Capuchins at Palermo. Oil painting by E.R., 1839.

Skeletons of priests (?), preserved and standing in rows wearing robes and berettas, depicted in a painting. Photograph.

The skeleton of a friar in the role of Death as the reaper, surrounded by skulls, ribs and vertebrae, in a chapel. Photograph.

Memento mori : the dead among us / Paul Koudounaris.

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

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

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Catacombs

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Images about Catacombs

Works from the collections

Memento mori : the dead among us / Paul Koudounaris.

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

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.

The skeleton of a friar in the role of Death as the reaper, surrounded by skulls, ribs and vertebrae, in a chapel. Photograph.

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

Catacombs

Images from the collections

Images about Catacombs

Works from the collections

Memento mori : the dead among us / Paul Koudounaris.

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

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.

The skeleton of a friar in the role of Death as the reaper, surrounded by skulls, ribs and vertebrae, in a chapel. Photograph.

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

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