A Morbid Fascination
The art and lore of cemeteries and tombs.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Toledo Memorial Park, Sylvania, Ohio
Grave News
There seems to be a hell of a mess at Arlington National Cemetery.
HERE'S
the story.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Lychgates in West Sussex
Bignor
Clayton
Pulborough
Bramber
Ardingley
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Highgate Cemetery, London
St. Michael's Cemetery, St. Michael's Ridge, Ohio
St. Michael's Cemetery, St. Michael's Ridge, Ohio
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
All Souls' Day
By Franz Skarbina, 1896.
Finis Gloriae Mundi
By Juan de Valdes Leal, 17th century.
By Caspar David Friedrich
A Gravedigger
By Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, 1871.
St. Nicholas Churchyard, Hanover
By Rudolf Wiegmann, 1835.
The Premature Burial
By Antoine Wiertz, 1854.
No laughing matter. It's been estimated that at least one in ten burials before 1920 were premature.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Sapanta Cemetery, Romania
(Photo Credit)
Royal Crypt, Riddarholm Church, Stockholm, Sweden
Carl XII
Carl XII's remains, photographed when the tomb was opened in 1916. That bullet hole spared Sweden a lot of trouble.
Carl XI
Frederick I
Queen Ulrica Eleonora
Ocieka, Poland
(Photo Credit)
Monday, September 7, 2009
Charlottenburg, Germany
Mausoleum of King Friedrich Wilhelm III and Queen Louise of Prussia.
Bluecher's Mausoleum, Krobielowice, Poland
That's Bluecher of Waterloo, BTW.
Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore
(Photo Credit)
Juselius Mausoleum, Pori, Finland
(Photo Credit)
Akershus, Norway
Tomb of King Haakon VII and Queen Maud.
(Photo Credit)
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
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