#sedlec

[hsundholm]

The Church Attic by Henrik Sundholm Via Flickr: I visited the attic in the Church of the Assumption in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.

[jackcoffins]

Been a while since I've made one 🤘💀🤟🎨✏️🖤 . . . . . . #art #airbrush #reaper #createxcolors #jackcoffins #jackcoffinsart #jackcoffinsdesign #artist #artgallery #art2023 #reel #reels #kutnahora #artwork #reaper

[2t2r]

L'ossuaire de Sedlec, une église décorée des ossements de 40.000 personnes

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L'ossuaire de Sedlec, une église décorée des ossements de 40.000 personnes

[ari-larsen]

this is a cover for a comic assignment in my graphic design class, where I decided to illustrate The Soup Scene™️ from Harrow the ninth

and here’s the sketch but I forgot to save it initially so now some parts are erased lol

[unknownworlds4]

Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic. This chapel in the Sedlec suburb of the city of Kutna Hora, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic is one of the most unique in the world: the interior is decorated entirely with human bones.

In the mid-12th century, a Catholic monastery was established in Kunta Hora by the Order of Cistercian Monks. It was the first Cistercian abbey in Bohemia and remained in operation until it was dissolved in 1783. In 1278, Henry - the Abbott of the Monastery - was sent to the Holy Land by King Ottokar II of Bohemia. There he collected soil from the area outside Jerusalem where Jesus was supposedly crucified. When he returned home, he scattered this holy soil in the Abby cemetery. Word of this pious act soon spread, making the cemetery a desirable place to be buried for people throughout Central Europe. This, in addition to the Black Death in the 14th century and the Hussite Wars in the 15th century, led to many thousands being buried in the cemetery, leading it to be vastly expanded. Around 1400, a new gothic cathedral was built on the cemetery grounds. The basement of this chapel was used as an ossuary - a vessel or site used for the storing of human remains. Over 40,000 bodies were exhumed to make room in the cemetery and their bones were placed in unorganized heaps within the ossuary.

In 1870, the Schwarzenberg family - a noble family that were patrons of the church - hired local woodcarver Frantisek Rint to organize the bones into a much more aesthetically pleasing arrangement. The results of his work are absolutely astounding. The decorations and furnishings of the chapel are made completely out of human bones. These decorations include four massive bell-shaped mounds, chandelier, an altar, a coat of arms of the House of Schwarzenberg, and a signature of Rint by the front entrance. The chapel has a earned the name "The Chruch of Bones" and receives as many as 200,000 visitors annually.

[sspacegodd]

Horribly beautiful.

[t3rc3rmundista]

Jhonn Balance wearing a "Time Machines / Musick Cures You of Time" tee at Sedlec Ossuary (Bone Church) in Czech Republic, 2001.

📸: Bill Breeze

[bonefool]

Frantisek Rint was a Bohemian carpenter. In 1867 he was brought in to rearrange the massive piles of Medieval bones that filled the Sedlec Ossuary. This building was a sanctified building within a large and popular Czech cemetery ( supposedly sprinkled with earth from Golgotha by an ancient abbot pilgrim).

The fame of the place caused great demand for burials, especially after the black plague and wars. The bones of the long dead began being exhumed and stored in the basement of the chapel (legend says one monk spent all his later years just exhuming and organizing the bones of 40-70k people) 400 years later local nobility hired the man Rint to redesign the bone piles, and his elaborate designs now attract 200,000 visitors annually. Over 3 years, his labor created 4 chandeliers, a massive coat of arms of his benefactors, the Schwarzenberger family, and his own bone signature.

[thedragonkeepr]

[user034081]

sedlec ossuary, czech republic

[verysickofthisshit]

hannibal would fucking LOVE the sedlec ossuary… i mean come ON!!!

[eerieluzt]

The Church of Bones

[depointeoflouis]

When you went travelling, did you ever visit the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic? What do you think of it in terms of it being a work of art?

The opportunity never came up. When Armand and I began our travels, Czechia, as most in Central Europe, was still occupied by German soldiers and after that, well. Europe in my mind had offered all it could in terms of discovery and we both wanted something new in terms of culture.

But It is that, it's a work of art. It's macabre, morbid, – a symbol of devotion. A graveyard in church pews. I think it's as fascinating as the Wadi al-Salam in Najaf or the St. Louis cemetery in New Orleans. Just because a body isn't in the ground doesn't mean it's being disrespectful to life and why not call it art?

[hsundholm]

A Vertical Spiral by Henrik Sundholm Via Flickr: A spiral staircase in the Church of the Assumption in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.

[paralogion]

[everywhereskulls]

Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic