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The Bloody Countess: Valentine Penrose, Erzsébet Báthory, and Sanguineous Surrealism: A Live, Online Lecture with Dr. Sabina Stent, Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson

Admission: $8 - Tickets and more info HERE

Erzsébet Báthory was a sixteenth-century Hungarian noblewoman and serial killer who believed the key to everlasting youth and beauty was to bathe in the blood of attractive young women. This talk will look at Bathory’s bloodlust through artist Valentine Penrose’s seminal book The Bloody Countess and explore thematic associations of blood in art by other women Surrealists.