Showing posts with label Capuchini Bone Chapel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capuchini Bone Chapel. Show all posts

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Dead Decorations

Today I met up with some friends and some resident students from AUR took us to the Capuchini Bone Chapel, which has a beautiful church as you can see:




But underneath this church there are strange alcoves decorated with the femurs, skulls, hips, jaws, and other assorted bones of 4000 (dead) monks, and 2 (dead) children who were the Pope's niece and nephew. Who knew bones could be arranged in such a way as to be decorative? I'm thinking this is going to be a big trend in the fall, mark my words, human bones will be all over the pages of Home and Garden and in the show rooms at Pottery Barn.