Empire of Death

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Paul Koudounaris

Hardback | Januari 2011 |

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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.

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Auteur
Paul Koudounaris
Uitgever
Thames & Hudson
ISBN
9780500251782
Bindwijze
Hardback
Publicatiedatum
Januari 2011
Categorie
Overig
Taal
Engelstalig

Beschrijving

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.

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Specificaties

Auteur
Paul Koudounaris
Uitgever
Thames & Hudson
ISBN
9780500251782
Bindwijze
Hardback
Publicatiedatum
Januari 2011
Categorie
Overig
Taal
Engelstalig

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