• DocumentCode
    1367575
  • Title

    Resurrection man [IEEE Student Branch profile]

  • Author

    Causer, Craig

  • Author_Institution
    Managing Editor of IEEE Potentials
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    5
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    In the 16th century, a group of Franciscan monks seized a chance to communicate the inevitability of death and erected a chapel in which one could assume the proper mindset to contemplate one´s own demise. It was with this goal in mind that the Capela dos Ossos (Chapel of Bones) was built in Evora, Portugal, displaying thousands of skulls and bones, as well as two full skeletal corpses, cemented into its walls. Over the years, the chapel has become a popular tourist attraction, serving as a macabre monument to transitory life.
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Potentials, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0278-6648
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MPOT.2009.934180
  • Filename
    5235526