Tag: Art Macabre

• Protest, politics & power: the tales of martyrs Anne Askew & Margaret Pole

  Nikki Shaill, Director of Art Macabre Death Drawing salons and Drawn at the Tower, discusses the lives and deaths of two female martyrs from English history. On Wednesday evening, an event will take place inviting guests to draw these figures on the site where they were both executed and buried at Tower of London’s Chapel…

  Death and the Maiden

  14/11/2016

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  Anne Asknew, Art, Art Macabre, Death, Death Drawing, Drawn at the Tower, Execution, Faith, History, Lozzy Bones Art, Margaret Pole, Martyrs, Religion, The Tower of London

• Drawn at the Tower

  When the wonderful people at Art Macabre invited Death & the Maiden’s own Lucy Talbot to experience the first Drawn at the Tower, a series of events at the Tower of London after dark, how could she say no? Particularly when it would be the She Wolf of France walking into the beautiful low lit…

  Death and the Maiden

  28/01/2016

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  Art, Art Macabre, Charles I, Charles II, Creation, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death Drawing, Drawn at the Tower, Event, Experiences, Historic Royal Palaces, History, London, Music, Odette Toilette, Queen Isabella, Scent, Strewing Herbs, The She Wolf, The Tower of London

• Bringing Franz Fieldler Back to Life

  It’s a strangely sweet and innocent romance that is portrayed between them. Is the woman kneeling at the skeleton’s feet pleading with him, or in loving adoration? Are those boney arms of death tightly wrapped around the nude maiden’s flesh done so in a passionate embrace of lust and longing, or aggressive entrapment? Who is…

  Death and the Maiden

  20/07/2015

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  Adornment, Anatomy, Art, Art Macabre, Artist, Barts Pathology Museum, Beauty, Carla Valentine, Creation, Danse Macabre, Dead Meet, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Death Drawing, Franz Fiedler, Inspiration, Live Model, Model, Museum, Nude, Philippe Halsman, Photography, Salvador Dali, Skeleton, Specimens