St. Innocents' Cemetery
Burial in St. Innocent's, ca. 1420.
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On this page we will examine those representations that we have of St. Innocents' church and cemetery.
It is no easy task to make sense of the different depictions, because:
- The number of resources is limited.
- Many of the depictions are frustratingly imprecise.
- The perspectives are skewed.
- The cemetery and its monuments change over time through the centuries.
- Many of the images were produced after the church and cemetery has been demolished.
- A number of the images are laterally inversed.
The depictions fall into four categories:
S. Inocens
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Turgot
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Merian, 1615
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1552
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Della Bella
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Della Bella
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Della Bella
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Della Bella
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Della Bella
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Silvestre
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St. Innocents
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St. Innocents
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St. Innocents
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St. Innocents, 1550
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Innocents 1445
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Etherington
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Tableau historique
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Ancienne Église
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Getty Ms. 57
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Getty Ms. 57
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Jakob Grimer
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Jakob Grimer
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Grimer copy
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Grimer copy
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Tower
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Cross
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Pulpit
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Bernier
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Villeroy
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Villeroy
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Villeroy
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Bernier 1786
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Hoffbauer
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Charnels
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Vieux charniers
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Ossuary
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Villeroy
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Tavernier
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Saint-Aulaire
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Fourquemin
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Lepére
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Pernot
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Cimitero
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Cimetiere des Innocents
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Saint-Aulaire
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Skeleton
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Innocents 1550
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Innocents 1780
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St. Innocent
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St. Innocent
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St. Innocent
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1610
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External links
- Paris Museés
Many of the works by Bernier, Grimer, Hoffbauer and Silvestre can be found here by searching for "cimetiére des Innocents".
N.B.: Gallica also has many of Bernier's drawings, but be aware that most of them are "contre-épreuves" and thus laterally reversed.
Further information
Dances of death
Danse macabre
St. Innocents