Quigley's Cabinet

Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."

Showing posts with label catacombs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catacombs. Show all posts
Friday, August 13, 2010

Wherefore art thou, Dario?

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In the catacombs and crypts of Sicily, of course! My friend Dario Piombino Mascali is an Italian anthropologist and bioarchaeologist who is...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

St. Paul stares back

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Beneath an ugly office building ( photo here ) lies a Roman time capsule. The catacombs of St. Tecla contain a tiny basilica where early Ch...
Saturday, August 1, 2009

Follow-ups

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Creative cremains The company that makes diamonds out of human cremains can also make them out of human hair, and has announced plans to pr...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Nadar and the Paris Catacombs

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In the research paper for Jim Schaefer's photography class (see below), I wrote about the depiction of hermaphrodites by 19th-century Fr...
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Chris Quigley has been reviewing morbid books since receiving an MA in 2007 from Georgetown University, where she has worked since 1986. As of June 2009, she is on long-term disability leave. She delivered the keynote address at the first Museum of Funeral Customs symposium (Springfield, Illinois), consulted with the producers of the National Geographic Channel’s Mummy Road Show, and authored 6 morbid books of her own - Death Dictionary, The Corpse, Modern Mummies, Skulls and Skeletons, Conjoined Twins, and Dissection on Display - all published by McFarland & Co.
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