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» Catherine Tse - Carmelite designers

Fascinating article. I had not idea the Carmelite monks designed and decoarated with bones. Do you know of any other structures that use bones as an aesthetic element?

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» Barbara Rogers - Bone Chapels

In response to Carmelite designers posted by catherine101:

Potugal has a couple of other bone chapels, one in a Franciscan church in Evora, where a much larger chapel is decorated in bones. Another, in the seldom-visted town of Campo Maior, is a memorial to 1500 people who were killed when lightening stuck the gunpowder magazine. Unable to identify the widely scattered remains, the town's surviving residents built this chapel lined with the bones.

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» franfolsom - Bone Chapels

In response to Bone Chapels posted by ciaomondo:

In the catacombs that run underneath Naples there is a bone chapel where the bones are imbedded into the walls.

-- posted by franfolsom

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» Barbara Rogers - Bone Chapels

In response to Bone Chapels posted by franfolsom:

I have added that to my list of bone chapels -- thanks! I just learned of one in Rome, too, which I need to track down.

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» Barbara Rogers - Bone Chapel in Rome

In response to Bone Chapels posted by franfolsom:
I just found te one in Rome, under the church of Santa Maria della Concezione on Via Veneto, near Piazza Barberini. Its walls are almost completely covered in skulls of more than 4,000 Capuchin monks, and their bones are made into baroque designs on the ceiling.

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