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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.

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

Die katakomben von San Gennaro dei Poveri in Neapel : eine kunsthistorische Studie / von Victor Schultze ; mit 10 lithographirten tafeln.

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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.

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

Die katakomben von San Gennaro dei Poveri in Neapel : eine kunsthistorische Studie / von Victor Schultze ; mit 10 lithographirten tafeln.