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Bodies Collection (#8)

"Bodies in Motion: A Journey through Time and Space" From the bustling streets of Busy Bodies to the industrious bees, life is constantly on the move

Background imageBodies Collection: The Bard, 1774 (oil on canvas)

The Bard, 1774 (oil on canvas)
NGW238895 The Bard, 1774 (oil on canvas) by Jones, Thomas (1743-1803); 114.5x168 cm; National Museum Wales; National Museums & Galleries of Wales

Background imageBodies Collection: The Birth of Venus, c.1485 (tempera on canvas)

The Birth of Venus, c.1485 (tempera on canvas)
BEN285731 The Birth of Venus, c.1485 (tempera on canvas) by Botticelli, Sandro (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi) (1444/5-1510); 180x280 cm; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Tuscany

Background imageBodies Collection: The Cathedral (plaster)

The Cathedral (plaster)
PWI83664 The Cathedral (plaster) by Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Musee Rodin, Paris, France; (add.info.: By Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)); © Peter Willi

Background imageBodies Collection: Lovers Beige

Lovers Beige
Pictufy Studio II

Background imageBodies Collection: Lovers Black

Lovers Black
Pictufy Studio II

Background imageBodies Collection: Help!

Help!
Brig Barkow

Background imageBodies Collection: India - Benares preparing bodies for cremation early 1900s

India - Benares preparing bodies for cremation early 1900s

Background imageBodies Collection: White Star Line, RMS Titanic, view of B Deck restaurant

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, view of B Deck restaurant
White Star Line, RMS Titanic, view of a la carte restaurant on B Deck. A section of a column from this restaurant was recovered by CS Minia while searching for bodies following the sinking. Date: 1912

Background imageBodies Collection: White Star Line, RMS Titanic, column section from restaurant

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, column section from restaurant
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. Section of a column from Titanic?s a la carte restaurant on B Deck. Fluted with a 1ins. gilt carved ribbon

Background imageBodies Collection: Exhibition Of White And Black

Exhibition Of White And Black
A series of three black and white illustrations, each portraying a different gentleman wearing suits or uniform, the use of white highlights notable parts of their bodies

Background imageBodies Collection: Brother Sheares Vault, St. Michan's Church, Dublin, Ireland

Brother Sheares Vault, St. Michan's Church, Dublin, Ireland
Brother Sheares Vault - St. Michan's Church - Dublin, Ireland. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageBodies Collection: Burning ghats, Benares

Burning ghats, Benares
Manikarnika (also known simply as the burning ghat) is the place where the majority of dead bodies are cremated in Varanasi. Hindus believe it will liberate them from the cycle of death and rebirth

Background imageBodies Collection: Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies
A stage adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies at the Vaudeville Theatre. Date: 1932

Background imageBodies Collection: Advertisement for Sunray Glass

Advertisement for Sunray Glass'. Health! Sturdy limbs and bronzed bodies come of the Ultra Violet Rays which windows of Sunray Glass admit to your home

Background imageBodies Collection: Mexican mummies

Mexican mummies
Royal mummies in a Mexican tomb. The methods of preservation are similar to Egyptian mummies, but here they are positioned standing. Date: circa 1910

Background imageBodies Collection: Posada, The Plague, Mexico

Posada, The Plague, Mexico
The Plague, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Background imageBodies Collection: 1914 1910s 10s Tens Promotional Postcard Adrian

1914 1910s 10s Tens Promotional Postcard Adrian
1914, 1910s, 10s, tens, promotional, postcard, adrian, ross, george, dances, opera, house, northampton, waltz, dream, waltzes, waltzed, dreams, violin, violins, musician, music, musical, body

Background imageBodies Collection: Revolution victims during period of anarchy, Russia

Revolution victims during period of anarchy, Russia
Revolution victims during a period of Bolshevik-led anarchy in Russia, with crosses to mark their place of burial. Date: circa 1917

Background imageBodies Collection: Revolution victims after street fighting, Russia

Revolution victims after street fighting, Russia. The dead bodies were collected and placed on trestles in adjacent houses until carts could carry them to the morgues. Date: circa 1917

Background imageBodies Collection: Revolution victims laid out for identification, Russia

Revolution victims laid out for identification, Russia
Revolution victims laid out in a street for identification, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. Some of them have slips of paper giving their names. Date: 1917

Background imageBodies Collection: Henry V

Henry V - after the battle. 1862

Background imageBodies Collection: Bastogne, 1944

Bastogne, 1944
A scene in Bastogne during the siege by German forces who had taken advantage of poor weather conditions to cut off American Divisions defending the town

Background imageBodies Collection: WW1 - Dardanelles Campaign - Australians cornering the enemy

WW1 - Dardanelles Campaign - Australians cornering the enemy
WW1 - Dardanelles Campaign - Progress in Gallipoli as the Australian troops advance up hill, yet corner and attack a Turkish detachmment

Background imageBodies Collection: Winter night on the French front at Verdun 1917

Winter night on the French front at Verdun 1917
A dramatic scene of 32nd Regiment of infantry amongst the action and destruction in the trenches in Verdun, France

Background imageBodies Collection: Verdun Victims remains still in temporary Ossuary

Verdun Victims remains still in temporary Ossuary in 1927, awaiting definitive internment. See 10412369 for an earlier shot of the same location. Date: 1927

Background imageBodies Collection: Cannibalism Cooking Dead Humans Fiji Fijian Native

Cannibalism Cooking Dead Humans Fiji Fijian Native
cannibalism, cooking, dead, humans, fiji, fijian, native, barbaric, rite, traditions, pacific, islanders, fierce, warriors, enemies, consuming, cannibal, cannibalisation, cannibals, body, bodies

Background imageBodies Collection: Cremating bodies at the waterside, India

Cremating bodies at the waterside, India. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageBodies Collection: Corpses of Russian soldiers, Brzostek cemetery, WW1

Corpses of Russian soldiers, Brzostek cemetery, WW1
Corpses of Russian soldiers at Brzostek cemetery, Galicia (now in Poland), on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1917

Background imageBodies Collection: Dead Russian soldiers at Augustowo, WW1

Dead Russian soldiers at Augustowo, WW1
The bodies of dead Russian soldiers caught in barbed wire at Augustowo (Augustow, Poland) on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: September-October 1914

Background imageBodies Collection: Dead soldiers on battlefield, Romanian Front, WW1

Dead soldiers on battlefield, Romanian Front, WW1
Dead soldiers on a battlefield on the Romanian Front during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

Background imageBodies Collection: Crashed Allied plane at Fournes, France, WW1

Crashed Allied plane at Fournes, France, WW1
A crashed Allied plane at Fournes, on the Western Front in northern France, during the First World War, with German troops and others gathered round. Date: 1914-1918

Background imageBodies Collection: Bubonic plague in China

Bubonic plague in China
Bubonic plague outbreak in China: collecting and carrying the dead in Tientsin (now Tianjin). Date: 1911

Background imageBodies Collection: Broken Mass grave at Skiathos, Greece

Broken Mass grave at Skiathos, Greece
An incredible photograph of a large broken stone mortuary monument with the contents (many skeletons) spilling forth Date: circa 1910s

Background imageBodies Collection: CASUALTIES AT IRUN

CASUALTIES AT IRUN
Bodies strew the streets when the Nationalists (falangists and royalists who oppose the republican government) take Irun, close to the French frontier. Date: 1936

Background imageBodies Collection: TOWER OF SILENCE

TOWER OF SILENCE
The top of a Parsee Tower of Silence, Dakharma, where the dead bodies are exposed to the elements and to scavenging birds. Date: 19th century

Background imageBodies Collection: CANOPIC JAR

CANOPIC JAR
Canopic jars, from the city of Canopis, are used to store the hearts or other organs of deceased people whose bodies have been mummified. Date: BCE

Background imageBodies Collection: ZENITH BALLOON ACCIDENT

ZENITH BALLOON ACCIDENT
Carrying away the dead bodies following the fatal crash of the balloon Zenith when the aeronauts on board fainted due to the ballon's high altitude Date: May 1, 1875

Background imageBodies Collection: THE ZEPPELIN GRAVES

THE ZEPPELIN GRAVES
The so-called Zeppelin Graves, Theberton, Suffolk, England. Here lie the bodies of 16 German airmen from the Zeppelin gunned down on 17 June 1917. Date: 1917

Background imageBodies Collection: PETER, PAUL RETOMBED

PETER, PAUL RETOMBED
The bodies of saints Peter and Paul are discovered, and re- housed in the Vatican in a more suitable tomb. Date: 15th or 16th century

Background imageBodies Collection: PLAGUE OF LONDON 1665

PLAGUE OF LONDON 1665
Bodies are brought out of the city in carts and buried in pits dug for the purpose during the Great Plague of London Date: 1665

Background imageBodies Collection: CIVIL WAR/BLOODY LANE

CIVIL WAR/BLOODY LANE
The harvest of Bloody Lane': the scene after a day's fighting at Antietam. Date: September 1862

Background imageBodies Collection: MARINER, HEARS VOICES

MARINER, HEARS VOICES
The Mariner slumped on deck amongst the bodies of his dead shipmates slowly awakens from his trance to hear the voices of two spirits Date: First published: 1798

Background imageBodies Collection: MARINER, DEADMEN ON SHIP

MARINER, DEADMEN ON SHIP
The Mariner is forced to confront the accusing eyes of his dead shipmates: Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die Date: First published: 1798

Background imageBodies Collection: RACIAL/MANDAN CEMETERY

RACIAL/MANDAN CEMETERY
Mandan cemetery: the ring of skulls is where the ceremonies take place; beyond are the platforms on which the bodies of the dead are laid Date: circa 1830

Background imageBodies Collection: BURNING HERETICS BOOKS

BURNING HERETICS BOOKS
When church reformers Martin Bucer and Phagius are put to death, their heretical books are burnt along with their bodies. Date: 1551

Background imageBodies Collection: KRAKATOA/CORPSES 1883

KRAKATOA/CORPSES 1883
The day after the eruption, a sailing vessel makes its way through a sea of floating corpses Date: 26-8 August 1883

Background imageBodies Collection: BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES

BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES
Bolshevik atrocities in Latvia: corpses litter the street Date: 1919

Background imageBodies Collection: 1916 Germans Burn Bodies Events World War One

1916 Germans Burn Bodies Events World War One
1916, germans, burn, bodies, events, world, war, one, western, front, german, troops, dead, furnace, history, historical, 10090036



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"Bodies in Motion: A Journey through Time and Space" From the bustling streets of Busy Bodies to the industrious bees, life is constantly on the move. Just like the Charge of Light Brigade charging fearlessly into battle, our they can always in motion, driven by an insatiable desire for progress. Take a step back in time with The Laughing Cavalier, a masterpiece from 1624 that captures the vivacity and spirit of its subject. And speaking of historical figures, Napoleon's commanding presence is immortalized in James Sant's c1894-95 portrait. These bodies may have long left this earth, but their legacies continue to inspire us today. But it's not just people who captivate us; nature's beauty also takes center stage. Picture yourself strolling along Ballycastle's sandy beaches or witnessing a breathtaking sunset at Almyros Beach in Corfu. The Northern Irish coastline beckons with its rugged charm while Hags Head stands tall amidst the majestic Cliffs of Moher. Venturing further west brings us to Cleggan at sunset, where Connemara unveils its wild allure, and is here that Dante and Virgil find themselves on ice – a surreal study by Shirley Markham that transports us into another realm entirely. Crossing bridges across Newport River leads us to County Mayo's hidden gems – serene landscapes dotted with crooked trees and rolling hills. Amongst them stands Croagh Patrick mountain, inviting adventurers seeking solace within nature’s embrace. In this world full – both human and natural – we find ourselves connected through shared experiences and awe-inspiring wonders. So let your body be guided by curiosity as you explore these diverse landscapes across Europe; for it is through movement that we truly come alive.