Human remains: art, after-life, and awe at Sedlec Ossuary
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“The Bone Church” sits in a town called Kutna Hora, an hour’s drive outside of Prague. Within are remains of nearly 40,000 people, each bone delicately placed in pyramid-shaped piles or fused together to create an artistically constructed chandelier that crawls down from the ceiling. In the 13th century, an abbot brought earth from Palestine to the cemetery surrounding this Chapel of All Saints. As word spread, locals came to regard the place as part of the Holy Land; the graveyard then a sought after burial site among aristocracy of Central Europe. When space ran short, remains were exhumed and stored in the chapel. Czech legend has it that a blind artist created the famed sculptures of bone, divine visions guiding his work.
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