If you're at a loose end today, the Govan Stones is having a free open day between 11am and 4pm. This includes an achaeological survey of the Govan Old Parish Churchyard which has a number of interesting gravestones, such as ones like this which feature memento mori, or reminders of death.
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Survive (Maxiblues Remix)
💀✨ Dans la chapelle Cornaro, à Rome, le marbre ne se contente pas d’être beau : il sait aussi être un peu dramatique.
Ces squelettes incrustés dans le sol ajoutent au décor baroque une présence à la fois élégante, macabre et étrangement vivante.
Le genre de détail qui rappelle que l’art religieux du XVIIe siècle aimait autant l’élévation spirituelle que les effets de scène.
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same ol yard,
different grave.
A quotation from Alexander Smith
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.Alexander Smith (1830-1867) Scottish poet
Essay (1863), “Of Death and the Fear of Dying”, Dreamthorp
More about this quote: wist.info/smith-alexander/8321…
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Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss…