The ghastly glory of Europe’s jewel-encrusted relics
It’s partly a question of taste. When Anna Eliza Bray was collecting materials for The Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland (1841) she was proudly shown the ornamented skeleton of St Alexander at Freiburg. 'Never before had we witnessed any sight so disgusting,’ she recalled. 'I involuntarily started …
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