Giant skeleton installed in a deconsecrated church, surrounded by soft lighting and brick architecture

The Art of Fear

Art installation of a giant skeleton lying inside a brick-arched chapel.
Calamita Cosmica (Cosmic Magnet) - Foligno

PhotoCredits: Simone Telari

1794 ceramic illustration of a skeleton with a scythe sitting on a rock next to an hourglass.
Allegory of Death – Deruta, Museum of Ceramics
1464 fresco of a winged skeleton spreading death in a medieval town, with the inscription "FVR" and an angel confronting it.
Madonna of Mercy from the Bonfigli’s Banner – Perugia
A woman plays the lute while looking in a mirror, next to an old man and a skull.
“Memento Mori” by Hemessen Jan Sanders van – Calvi dell’Umbria, Monastero delle Orsoline (Ursuline Monastery)

PhotoCredits: Foto Art Matticari Annalisa

Marble-carved skull with decorative wings, part of a funeral monument.
Funeral monument of Bishop Vincenzo de Atti, detail – Cappella del Corporale(Chapel of the Corporal), Orvieto Cathedral
Underground crypt with human skulls and bones displayed in glass cases, lit by a single light bulb.
Museum of the Mummies - Ferentillo
Stone-walled room with wooden ceiling containing a pile of human bones and skulls.
Crypt of San Lorenzo Abbey - Collazzone
Partially buried human skeleton with a damaged skull in close-up, a stone placed in its mouth, and a measuring scale next to it.
Tomb of the so-called “Vampire of Lugnano” – Infant Necropolis, Lugnano in Teverina
Contemporary artwork showing a dramatic scene of entwined male bodies in a surreal landscape with blue pools
“Rete Mistica” (Mystic Net) by Ricardo Cinalli – Cathedral of santa Maria Assunta, Terni
Damaged medieval fresco of an exorcism scene, with a female figure emitting black smoke from her mouth and a praying figure
Exorcism scene, Church of San Francesco, Montefalco