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Death And The Maiden
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Now it is just the bones. Luckily for her, he had to leave his scythe in the cloakroom when he entered the ballroom.Oi!
Watch where you put dem bones!
Hondoboot2
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What does Jollyrei have against Ballerinas
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Ballerinas perform better than Grimp Reaper in the Dance of the Death!What does Jollyrei have against Ballerinas
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
I do not think we had this one yet. The marvelous sculpture of the tomb of Raffaele Pienovi (1779-1870) at the Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa. Pienovi was a rich entrepreneur in Genova. When he was eighty, after the death of his first wife, he remarried with a girl named Virginia Avrile. She was sixty years younger than him.
After his death, the sculpture for his tomb was made by G. B. Villa. Actually, the central figure is the young widow Virginia, standing next to her husband's death bed. While her left hand holds his right wrist, she lifts up the cover over his head.
There is something ambiguous about it : is she holding his hand and having a last look at his face, or is she ensuring herself he is dead? Anyway, the sculpture spots a moment just before Virginia will be confronted with death (his face being as yet difficult to discern). Also remark the way her long skirt merges with the cover of the dead body!
Virginia Avrile lived for 47 years after her husband's death. She never remarried.
After his death, the sculpture for his tomb was made by G. B. Villa. Actually, the central figure is the young widow Virginia, standing next to her husband's death bed. While her left hand holds his right wrist, she lifts up the cover over his head.
There is something ambiguous about it : is she holding his hand and having a last look at his face, or is she ensuring herself he is dead? Anyway, the sculpture spots a moment just before Virginia will be confronted with death (his face being as yet difficult to discern). Also remark the way her long skirt merges with the cover of the dead body!
Virginia Avrile lived for 47 years after her husband's death. She never remarried.
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There are so many beautiful sculptures in the Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa.
Masterpieces of funeral art. Always remarkable and worth for conservation.
Old habits die hard
This was him before he....um... lost weight
(I'm wondering about letting you guess or figure out the connection between the two pictures....
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A brand new image by the artist jucundus
I KNOW WHERE I'M CONNECTED TO HER, ANYWAY.Old habits die hard
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This was him before he....um... lost weight
(I'm wondering about letting you guess or figure out the connection between the two pictures....
PERSONALLY, I THINK I LOOK BETTER NOW. I LOOKED QUITE UNWELL BEFORE I LOST WEIGHT. 
RacingRodent
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Old habits die hard
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This was him before he....um... lost weight
(I'm wondering about letting you guess or figure out the connection between the two pictures....
I KNOW WHERE I'M CONNECTED TO HER, ANYWAY.
So I am guessing winter is the fault of your early amorous adventures Jolly?
Yes, that hot bath in volcanic ash from Vesuvius just fired you up!I KNOW WHERE I'M CONNECTED TO HER, ANYWAY.
Meanwhile, someone's welcomed you into his library...
Always liked those Ex Libris prints. I need to find out something about their history. What is it about death, sex, and books?
RacingRodent
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Always liked those Ex Libris prints. I need to find out something about their history. What is it about death, sex, and books?
Books sell death and sex....no hang on wait I may have gotten that muddled
