Title

Catacombs of the Capuchins, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 1927. Artist: Eugen Poppel.

Caption

Catacombs of the Capuchins, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 1927. The Capuchins are an order of friars in the Catholic Church, among the chief off-shoots of the Franciscans. The catacombs began to be used in the 16th century when the Capuchin monastery of Palermo ran out of space in its cemetery and began to excavate crypts beneath the monastery. Originally the catacombs were only intended to be used to bury the dead friars, but as it came to be regarded as a status symbol, local notables began to be interred there as well and the catacombs were maintained by their donations. The last burials took place in the 1920s. From Italien in Bildern, by Eugen Poppel [August Scherl, Berlin, 1927]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1927

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C78_313

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,4Mb (3,8Mb) / 11,9in x 16,8in / 3576 x 5028 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy Italian building buildings people male interior indoors man men religious monastery country religion body guy monk monks dead death Sicily Christianity remains underground location Catholic Catholicism century Roman Catholic burial inside concept twenties B&W corpse MONOCHROME macabre friar Sicilian crypt black & white black and white B W palermo 1920s Roman Catholicism 20th century capuchin catacomb catacombs The Print Collector TGN the body photograph Eugen Eugen Poppel Poppel Eugen Eugen Poppel Poppel Eugen Poppel photograph