![]() BRAND NEW, GIFT QUALITY NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHERVCF. The book will also be available for sale and signing at the event, the first time the book will be available anywhere in the world. Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Koudounaris, Paul. His photographs are the first that were ever taken of many of them, and the images which will accompany his lecture are bizarre, moving, and beautiful. ![]() Koudounaris gained unprecedented access to religious institutions where the surviving decorated skeletons are held. Join us for a virtual talk with author and photographer Paul Koudounaris as he discusses his work and book, Heavenly Bodies, which delves deep into study of obscure macabre art history by presenting the forgotten story of a group of skeletons taken from the Roman Catacombs in the seventeenth century and completely decorated with jewels by teams of nuns. Largely forgotten artifacts in the annals of religious history, Dr. Once part of the spiritual life of many people, as time passed the faith in these sumptuously decorated skeletons wavered, and they were cast out during the Enlightenment as remnants of a superstitious and embarrassing Catholic past. An intriguing visual history of the veneration in European churches and monasteries of bejeweled and. Paul Koudounaris gained unprecedented access to. Intended as flamboyant devotional items, they also turned out to be the finest works of art ever created in human bone. Heavenly Bodies Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. The skeletons, known as the catacomb saints, were carefully reassembled, richly dressed in fantastic costumes, wigs, crowns, jewels, and armor, and posed in elaborate displays inside churches and shrines as reminders to the faithful of the heavenly treasures that awaited them after death. Sent to Catholic churches and religious houses in German-speaking Europe to replace holy relics that had been destroyed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, the skeletons were carefully reassembled and richly adorned in jewels and precious costumes by teams of nuns. Paul Koudounaris (author of the goth cult classic Empire of Death) presents a talk with slide show for the Last Tuesday Society at Viktor Wynd's on his new volume, Heavenly Bodies, the story of skeletons discovered in the Roman Catacombs in the late sixteenth century.Įven though the bones were anonymous, they were believed to be the remains of Early Christian martyrs, and treated as sacred. Heavenly Bodies Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris 2021 Thames & Hudson 192 pp Hardcover - with dust jacket New.
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