Start by coming up with a gothic look. I embraced the baroque style by matching a plague mask with a bodice and black clothing. Use direct, unfiltered lighting for stark and dramatic shadows.

The ossuary was designed in the Baroque Gothic style by architect Jan Blažej Santini Aiche. The bones from the exhumed remains of 40,000 deceased (from both the plague and the Hussite War ...

In Britain, the Gothic style was revived in the 18th Century, predominantly for churches and university buildings. Baroque architecture is closely entwined with the Counter-Reformation ...