Grove of Libitina

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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings" — Socrates When the obsession with death becomes a way of life. Cemeteries, skeletons, death worship, and funeral services is what you'll find here. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22077978-3']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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ducissatenebrarum

Skeletons pulling the sleeve of a beauty by Kyosai Kawanabe

I miss you when you’re gone.

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Paolo Pasquini

Dante and Virgil in the Sixth Circle of Hell

lady-circus

Art by : Lostfish Found on Google Pictures

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Art by : Takato Yamamoto Found on Google Pictures

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zemunin

Arachnofinery by nastynoser

cyberspace-saga

“Wearing an antique bridal gown, the beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high house under the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors, each one of whom, through her, projects a baleful posthumous existence; she counts out the Tarot cards, ceaselessly construing a constellation of possibilities as if the random fall of the cards on the red plush tablecloth before her could precipitate her from her chill, shuttered room into a country of perpetual summer and obliterate the perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.”

— Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love; The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

markvomit

omgxxxdoll

Time, we can never escape from it. It changes everything and everyone.

lindadigsgraves

Roses of the Cemetery

huntingtonlibrary

♬ ♪ ♩ Baby, I’m just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake ♩ ♪ ♬

These skeletons from 1543 wanted to go as a Taylor Swift video, but these gifs are as close as we could get. Sorry, skeletons.

Happy Halloween.

caption: Pages 203 and 205 of De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1543) by Andreas Vesalius. GIFed by The Huntington.

365filmsbyauroranocte

Absences répétées (Guy Gilles, 1972)

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@angelicavaldes

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Dried flowers and discarded petals. There it is again, an obsession with beauty and death.

atlasobscura

Curious Fact of the Week: How to Make a Bone Chandelier

The unsettling celebrated Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic is best known as the “Bone Church” — and with good reason. It’s estimated the bleached bones of between 40,000 and 70,000 dearly departed souls grace the walls. However, in all the skull garlands and charming touches like a bone bird plucking at a gaping eye socket, the centerpiece is without a doubt the chandelier.

It can be hard to make out in the ornate jumble, but there’s at least one of every bone in the human body in the chandelier. It’s arguably the masterpiece of the macabrely eccentric Frantisek Rint, a woodcarver who approached the ordering of the thousands of bones in 1870 as an artistic task. Perhaps surprisingly to everyone but Rint, the ossuary has become quite the tourist destination.

Why are there so many dead people in this one small space? Story goes that back in the 13th century, the Sedlec Monastery Abbot brought back some earth from the Holy Land. Unfortunately, he didn’t carry much, so the spare land where he sprinkled the dirt became quite crowded with people who wanted to rest eternally in its gritty grace. So the ossuary was the result, where everyone in a way could be close.

As for the chandelier, once you know that a whole anatomy is up there details like femurs and jawbones start to emerge. The crowning touch is the ring of skulls topped with candles, which are illuminated each year on All Soul’s Day.

(Curious Fact of the Week: How to Make a Bone Chandelier on Atlas Obscura)