MetaFilter posts tagged with gravestones

I Am Only Going Into Another Room

MartinWisse — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:45:28 -0800

"101 ways to say died: in this project, I will be cataloging all the synonyms for "died" that appear in early American epitaphs." Courtesy of Vast Public Indifference: history, grad school, and gravestones. Bonus content from the same blog: Muppet or 18th century Connecticutian?

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Ahab — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:25 -0800

Louis Comfort Tiffany: The Mother-lode. Tiffany Studios Research Center features an LC Tiffany chronology; links to videos about his life and work, links to biographies, bibliographies and articles on Tiffany's relationships with Siegfried Bing, John LaFarge, Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls; more links to sites showcasing Tiffany, Colman, Wheeler and de Forest interiors; still more links to other articles, sites and museums featuring Tiffany's paintings, stained glass, art glass, mosaics, glass tiles, lamps, metalwork, enamelware, pottery, jewellery, and gravestones; and much more. Previously, The Willard Memorial Chapel.

Luna Commons

Kattullus — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:57:14 -0800

Luna Commons is a database of sixteen free digital image collections built using Luna Imaging's Insight software. And there's a lot of cool stuff, well over a hundred thousand images all available for download in good resolution. Here are some of the collections featured: Pratt Institute Fashion Plate Collection, The Farber Gravestones Collection, Maps of Africa, Cornell Political Americana Collection and the The Estate Collection of art by HIV+ artists. The advanced search allows you to search across all collection, for example seeing everything across all collections about animals or New York or your birthyear. Whatever you look for, it's gonna bring up a boatload of interesting images.

Britain's Weirdest Tombstones

saslett — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:58:20 -0800

IN MEMORY OF
HANNAH TWYNNOY
Who died October 23rd 1703
Aged 33 Years.
In bloom of Life
She’s snatched from hence,
She had not room
To make defence;
For Tyger fierce
Took Life Away.
And here she lies
In a bed of Clay,
Until the Resurrection Day

In anticipation of Halloween, BBC History magazine announces the winner (pdf link) of its "Mysterious Memorials" contest. (It's not the one above.) View the complete list of runners-up here.

GEORGE IZZO LOONEY

fungible — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:56:30 -0800

DieKus. Haikus made out of pictures of gravestones, being plastered around New York City by a mysterious artist named Nick Beef. (whose name has some mysterious origins of its own)

Stone Cold

digaman — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:29:32 -0800

It's never too late to declare your support for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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.

luser — Wed, 16 May 2001 11:35:38 -0800

I used to be a grave rubber, but after seeing this (warning: slow page load), I'm thinking before long the :cue:cat is going to be the better medium.