A coffin is carried down the stairs of a gothic church by a procession of monks, lit by the light of the full moon and the flames of the torches that some of the monks carry. They walk toward an open crypt in the foreground. The light from the crypt i...
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Subject (Topic):
Churches, Funeral processions, Incense, Monks, Moonlight, Pointed arches, and Torches
A scene from Horace Walpole's Gothic novel The castle of Otranto, with the characters Manfred and Theodore standing at center and three servants holding torches standing at left. The location is a dimly-lit vault, its arched ceiling supported at inter...
