Comments on: Grave Goods

Grave Goods

robocop is bleeding — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:57:12 -0800

Taphophiles, Rejoice! Northstar Galleries offers a collection of grave images from around the world. Of particular interest is an essay and gallery on "Sensuality in Memorial Art." But if potentially NSFW stone nudes are not your thing, you can search the Farber Gravestone Collection's archive of over thirteen thousand image database of pre-1800 American gravestones, more than enough for a melancholy afternoon.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 08:13:32 -0800

Northstar Galleries also has some other, non-morbid photographic archives for those interested.

By: JoanArkham

JoanArkham — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:07:45 -0800

Nice links, although you beat me to the taphophile post I was working on. *pout*

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:12:43 -0800

[This is good] (For lack of a better phrase to sum it all up...)

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:23:44 -0800

I thought that said "Tapophiles," and I was expecting a dissertation on the early works of Nigel Tufnel & David St. Hubbins. Ahem. But there is a huge amount of beauty and poetry in the design of a good gravestone or mausoleum, and I've always loved cemeteries for the solitude and sense of great care they represent. Nice links, robocop.

By: Captain_Tenille

Captain_Tenille — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:27:33 -0800

Naked and petrified, even. No sign of Natalie Portman, though.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:14:19 -0800

My undergrad degree is in english lit, but I spent most of my time reading epitaphs, looking at gravestones, and poking about slides of various English chapels. If I can find some good representative links of epitaphs (not the corney limerick ones, but the real poetry), maybe I'll have a second ffp all planned out! That is, of course, unless you want to take it JoanArkham. :)