Images of the skull in art

[Konstantin]

Сообщение от dedulya37

You (mnozh.chislo) sometime this sepulchral theme end? Shakespeare

The situation got out of control. Skulls were tenacious.
For example,

in the walls of the ancient monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, founded during the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, survived the so-called "room of skulls, which holds the remains of deceased in the world other fellow monks. For centuries, the small cemetery is not expanded, so the deceased monk was buried only when excavated and transferred to a room ashes of its predecessor. So did many other monasteries, located in Egypt or the Middle East. In them, in the twilight of cells can be seen the remains of their former inhabitants. They are in cabinets on the shelves in accordance with strict rules: stand - skull, separately - skeletons. In the monastery of St. Catherine entry in the "Room of skulls" protects the skeleton of St. Stephen. He sits, wearing a black robe. On the cervical vertebrae hangs a large cross. His skull, covered with a hood, leaning to one side. It seems as if he was asleep at his post. In fact, during his lifetime, and it is known that St. Stephen died about 580, he carried the same watch, but guarding the staircase leading from the monastery on top of Sinai, called "Gates of Heaven».