![]() ‘Suitable for goths, art historians and everyone in between … Incredible relics’ – Book Depository‘It’s utterly spectacular, hugely interesting and almost unbelievable’– All About History‘The grinning, bejewelled catacomb saints who stare our from the pages of Koudounaris challenge us to engage in deeper exercises, spiritual a.‘Suitable for goths, art historians and everyone in between … Incredible relics’ – Book Depository‘It’s utterly spectacular, hugely interesting and almost unbelievable’– All About History‘The grinning, bejewelled catacomb saints who stare our from the pages of Koudounaris challenge us to engage in deeper exercises, spiritual and intellectual to recreate lost forms of devotional life to understand how they inspired and deformed the study of the Christian past and to imagine what it felt like to believe that the gauze-wrapped skeleton in your church was a time lord, whose sight and touch could help to save your soul’ – The London Review of BooksFollowing the success of The Empire of Death, which has attracted a global cult following, Heavenly Bodies brings the 'catacomb saints' out of the darkness for the first timeIn 1578 a labyrinth of underground burials was discovered in Rome that contained the remains of thousands of individuals assumed to be early Christian martyrs. The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood. At Atlas Obscura, we’re not unfamiliar with the beautiful dead, from the painted skulls of the We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the world’s hidden wonders. Though today many of the heavenly bodies suffer from pests burrowing through their bones and dust gathering on their faded silk robes, in Koudounaris’ photos … Every person who inhabits planet earth is mortal.īelieved to be the remains of early Christian martyrs, they were treated as sacred. When you depart from this earth, you will have to leave all valuables behind. This is the first time that some of these incredible relics – both intriguing historical artifacts and masterpieces of artistic craftsmanship in their own right – have appeared in a publication, with Koudounaris gaining unprecedented access to photograph in some of the most secretive religious establishments in Europe.Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this is a tour de force of original cultural history with deepest resonances for a modern audience fascinated by visual representations of death.Paul Koudounaris lives in Los Angeles, where he took his doctorate in the art history department of UCLA. ![]()
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