Funerary Art.
The sort of images this community is looking for. The National Pantheon, Budapest.
Weathered and being reclaimed by nature
Some images from a graveyard, the sculptures having lived longer than the bones that are in eternal darkness beneath them.
There is so much symbolism in funerary art
This is my favourite one, I shall call it lady love
Alas the cemetery only has daylight visiting hours, on a full moon these would look spectacular, what ya reckon JC?
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I’d never come across the Tombstone Tourism thing before. I’m on a similar quest (reminds me of Monty Python when I use this word) with my # churchproject at the moment. I might try posting one or two to this community.
Cheers @nicklewis hope to see you walking amongst the dead! I do a lot of churches myself, love the architecture and history
We have vine across zone fascinating places and names, including a grave that had a timeline starting in the future and ending in the past. Total mystery!
I’ll go through my archives and find that photo, we’ll share on the community.
Wow! that is certainly mysterious!
I’ve found the stone I was talking about in an old churchyard with a ruined church, where one of the Waldorf Astor family is buried, who came to the UK from New York, founded one of the newspapers besides hotels. Nearby was this mystery grave.
That is really old, and weird how they got the dates wrong...or did they travel in time
I’m wondering whether it’s actually just not a gravestone per se? Something else? Maybe a trainee stone mason practicing etching detail into the stone?
Or has Dr Who been up to his old tricks to defeat the Daleks?
One of the mysteries we live with
Great one, you kept quiet about this! Do you have intentions to cross post old cemetery posts into the community? I know there are quite a few floating around
I have several but thought that was kind of frowned upon reposting old stuff?
Not reposting old stuff, but using the community account to cross post relevant old content into the community. That way it won't clutter up your personal feed and good posts will have a relevant home. I do that with my Train Spotting community account every now and then, and cross post train related posts into the community, it helps to make the community look a bit busier as well 🙂
Ah ok will move stuff over thanks for the advice much appreciated
No problems, but I'd suggest to use the community account and not your own personal account to cross post stuff so it doesn't clog up your own blog
Okie Dokie