Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries Charnel Houses Paul Koudounaris

New to Poshmark? Just sign up using code JIMMYTHEJERSEYMAN and get $15 off your first order >> https://posh.mk/6n7cxsjFZub Heavy hardcover book. The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses -ISBN 0500251789 Condition: Brand new in original plastic shrinkwrap packaging. No issues. Buy with confidence. Takes the reader on an international tour of macabre and devotional architectural masterpieces in nearly 20 countries. This book brings together some of the world's most important charnel sites, ranging from the crypts of the Capuchin monasteries in Italy, to the strange tomb of a 1960s wealthy Peruvian nobleman. 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 Evora 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. Please check out my other toys, books, jigsaw puzzle, board games etc.