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A chandelier of bones, which contains at least one of every bone in the human body, hangs from the center of the nave with garlands of skulls draping the vault. Other works include piers and monstrances flanking the altar , a coat of arms of the House of Schwarzenberg , and the signature of František Rint , also executed in bone, on the wall ...
In 1870, a local woodcarver was tasked with artistically arranging the bones. He created the famous chandelier, bells in the chapel and a coat of arms of the Schwarzenberg noble family.
The skull is much decayed, but the teeth are sound and apparently of a young man. The pelvis is much decayed and the smaller bones of the lower extremities are gone. The integuments of the right knee, for four or five inches above and below, are in good preservation, apparently the size and shape of life, although quite black.
To date, some of the earliest tool usages have been discovered through the analysis of wear patterns on bone. [24] This is known as use-wear analysis, in which objects are microscopically examined for their wear patterns and striations. Such analysis determines if an object is a tool or was worked by humans and can also determine what an object ...
The essay depicted literary realism as a "used up" tradition; Barth's description of his own work, which many thought nailed a core trait of postmodernism, is "novels which imitate the form of a novel, by an author who imitates the role of Author". He also stated that the novel as a literary form was coming to an end.
Small Moral Works (Italian: Operette morali [opeˈrette moˈraːli]) is a collection of 24 writings (dialogues and fictional essays) by the Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, written between 1824 and 1832.
Pulphead is an essay collection by the American writer and editor John Jeremiah Sullivan. Pulphead has been named a 2011 New York Times Notable Book, [1] a Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2011, [2] and one of Amazon's Best of the Month for November 2011.
The book delves into Boston's past (1830), with Maura Isles playing a cameo role in present-day Boston.In the present, recently divorced 38-year-old Julia Hamill, trying to plant a garden for her newly purchased rural Massachusetts home finds a female skull buried in the rocky soil.