The WELLCOME’s “major winter exhibition showcases some 300 works from a unique collection devoted to the iconography of death and our complex and contradictory attitudes towards it. Assembled by Richard Harris, a former antique print dealer based in Chicago, the collection is spectacularly diverse, including art works, historical artefacts, scientific specimens and ephemera from across the world. Rare prints by Rembrandt, Dürer and Continue reading
Archive for cultural history
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cultural history, death, England, exhibition, Wellcome Collection on 12 November 2012 by delclem
Undead anniversary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, cultural history, Enlightenment, Medvedja, Serbia, Vampire, Vampirism on 22 February 2012 by delclem
The European vampire is celebrating his/her/its birthday.
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On a winter day 280 years ago, a creature came out of its dark graves in the Balkans, into the bright day of the “enlightened” European public: the vampire.
delirium clemens 