Vampire Exhibition at Museo Civico di Crema Explores Literary and Artistic Roots
From October 19, 2024, through January 12, 2025, the Museo Civico di Crema e del Cremasco will launch an exhibition titled "Vampiri," focusing on the intersection of blood cults and resurrection in literature. The display includes over 200 items, such as books, magazines, and engravings sourced from various Italian libraries and private collections. It explores the evolution of vampire mythology, starting from ancient Mesopotamian tales to works from the 18th century, including Michael Ranfft’s writings, and Romantic poetry by John Keats and others. Notable features include the first Italian edition of "Frankenstein" and iconic works influenced by Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe.
Key facts
- Exhibition titled 'Vampiri. Illustrazione e letteratura tra culto del sangue e ritorno dalla morte'
- Runs from October 19, 2024 to January 12, 2025
- Over 200 works on display
- First use of term 'vampire' in European literature in 1730
- Includes 1725 treatise by Michael Ranfft
- First Italian edition of Frankenstein from 1944
- Bram Stoker's Dracula published in 1897
- Features works by Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Ernst, and Andy Warhol
Entities
Artists
- John Flaxman
- William Russell Flint
- Henry Chapront
- Edoardo Fontana
- John Keats
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lucien Pissarro
- John William Waterhouse
- Gerald Metcalfe
- George Frampton
- Frank Sepp
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Mary Shelley
- Lord Byron
- William Polidori
- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
- Charles Baudelaire
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Rudyard Kipling
- Wogel
- Harry Clarke
- Byam Shaw
- Edmund Dulac
- Alberto Martini
- Marchesa Casati
- Bram Stoker
- Francesco Ernesto Morando
- Luigi Capuana
- Giuseppe Tonsi
- Daniele Oberto Marrama
- Amalia Guglielminetti
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
- Werner Herzog
- Klaus Kinski
- Isabelle Adjani
- David Palladini
- Neil Jordan
- Anne Rice
- Edvard Munch
- Oskar Kokoschka
- Max Ernst
- Andy Warhol
- Michael Ranfft
- Augustin Calmet
- Gerard Van Swieten
- Giuseppe Davanzati
- Remy de Gourmont
Institutions
- Museo Civico di Crema e del Cremasco
Locations
- Crema
- Italy
- Lipsia
- Germany
- Villa Diodati
- Lake Constance
- London
- United Kingdom
- Belgium