ILLUSTRATED Manuscript AND Tolerate Occupation In the midst of DR. PAUL KOUDOUNARIS, In the midst of MUSIC AND ARTISINAL COCKTAILS BY FRIESE UNDINE
DATE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
TIME: 8:00
ADMISSION: 8
Produced BY Chilling ANATOMY
"**COPIES OF Idyllic BODIES movement be on show for sale and signing
Tonight, Dr. Paul Koudounaris-author of "Rule OF Disappearance", the fundamental book on ossuaries-will characteristic a heavily illustrated banter based on his new book "Idyllic Bodies: Whim Reserves and Fabulous Saints from the Catacombs", the story of skeletons exposed in the Roman Catacombs in the belated sixteenth century.
These global secret skeletons were on hand as the rest of Yet to be Christian martyrs, and treated as sacred. They were sent to Catholic churches and sanctimonious houses in German-speaking Europe to beat the holy leftovers that had been out of order in the burial of the Protestant Reformation. At hand, the skeletons would be thriftily reassembled and boomingly decorated with jewelry and sweetie costumes by teams of nuns. Designed as rich devotional items, they are now considered some of the elite works of art ever created in the medium of whatsoever bone. As time approved, faith in these sumptuously decked skeletons-once an recognized part of the spiritual life of lots people-wavered, until from top to bottom they were cast out over the Justification as remainder of a superstitious and crushing Catholic later than.
Chiefly earlier in the the past of sanctimonious history, Dr. Koudounaris gained unprecedented entrance hall to sanctimonious institutions but the permanent decked skeletons are open. His photographs are the in advance that were ever in use of lots of them, and the images which movement undergo his message are supernatural, moving, and select.
Dr. Paul Koudounaris holds a PhD in Art Former (UCLA) and has skilled classes at regular universities and published in magazines in the opposite direction the world. He is the designer of The Rule of Disappearance, the in advance illustrated history of charnel houses and sanctimonious sanctuaries decked with whatsoever bone. Named one of the ten best books of 2011 (London Evening Classic), it has garnered large-scale worry for its combination of innovative elapsed analyze and stunning photography.
