(via gotthatpma)
A few of the shelves on my bookcase
Large SKULL WATCH given by the Queen to Mary Seton. The forehead of the skull is engraved with a figure of death between a palace and a cottage, and a quotation in Latin meaning ‘pale death visits with impartial foot the cottages of the poor and the castles of the rich’ (Horace).
Gran calavera eléctrica by José Guadalupe Posada
Owl and Skull by Nicholas Christowitz
Berna
“The inscription on a skull—at St. Anne’s monastic community—records the death of a Father Gregentios in 1979.”
