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mi pare che stanno gridando:

"Salvami salvati salvaci salviamoci

salvali salvati salvami salviamoli "! Sono impaurito! ciao -koushik

Ora la questione è che è il salvatore. LOL. Good shot. Nizza presentazione in B / W. Saluti.

Chilling - great light.

A gruesome but wonderful shot. Great idea to use b/w and not use flash....Take care and Regards

Where is it? Chilling shot and wonderful too. Regards.

really interesting b/w. great light, great subject

Haunting light composition

Wow . What atmosphere . Very interesting the light and shadow in your composition .

 

Ciao

Hola Rita. Fantastica foto, con una composicion, y una luz extraordinaria. Un gran trabajo. Felicidades,Joaquin. 10/10.

hi RIta. BW fits this photo. it's a great photo

Woe, where is this? Makes me wonder who those people were and how they died. Very well captured. Great contrasts and tones

This is a quiet scary shoot but beautiful at the same time.. Light and color tones are great and I very good documentary shoot...

 

Best Regards Jill

The Fontanelle cemetery in Naples is a charnel house, an ossuary,

located in a cave in the tuff hillside in the Materdei section of the city.

It is the source of a fascinating chapter in the folklore of the city. By

the time the Spanish moved into the city in the early 1500s, there was

already concern over where to locate cemeteries, and moves had

been taken to locate graves outside of the city walls. Many

Neapolitans, however, insisted on being interred in their local

churches. To make space in the churches for the newly interred,

undertakers started removing earlier remains outside the city to the

cave, the future Fontanelle cemetery. The remains were interred

shallowly and then joined in 1656 by thousands of anonymous

corpses, victims of the great plague of that year.

Sometime in the late 1600s—according to Andrea De Jorio[1], a

Neapolitan scholar from the 19th century, great floods washed the

remains out and into the streets, presenting a grisly spectacle. The

anonymous remains were returned to the cave, at which point the

cave became the unofficial final resting place for the indigent of the

city in the succeeding years—a vast paupers' cemetery. It was

codified officially as such in the early 1800s under the French rule of

Naples. The last great "deposit" of the indigent (in neapolitan

language "pezzentielli" means indigent) dead seems to have been in

the wake of the cholera epidemic of 1837. A spontaneous cult of

devotion to the remains of these unnamed dead developed in Naples.

Defenders of the cult pointed out that they were paying respect to

those who had had none in life, who had been too poor even to have

a proper burial. Devotees paid visits to the skulls, cleaned them—

"adopted" them, in a way, even giving the skulls back their "living"

names (revealed to their caretakers in dreams). An entire cult sprang

up, devoted to caring for the skulls, talking to them, asking for favors,

bringing them flowers, etc

ed un bellissimo b/n. hai saputo dare movimento e profondità. Grazie per la bella introduzione, Giuseppe

Your explanation of these skulls makes them less a frightening poster for a horror movie, instead evidence of this compelling history lesson. Thanks for taking the time to relate that history.

Regards, ~~~~~~~~~Linda

Very interesting shot and information. Best regards.

Maronn'!...E cape e muort!...Ciaomau!

Indeed ver effective, Beyond rating. Regards