A series of lectures by dr Maria Molenda “Under the coat of darkness – stories of amazing costumes of phantoms of human imagination”
| On Sep04,2018
In November 2011 and February 2012 in the Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art in Sukiennice dr Maria Molenda gave four lectures dedicated to the symbolics of clothing in 19th-century and the beginning of 20th-century paintings, steampunk fashion inspired by the 19th century and i.a., costumes from gothic novels and movies.
— A wind-blown shroud. Creations of demonic-like figures in sources and iconography from antiquity to the 18th century.
— Old-fashioned clothing has a demonic taste to it. Costumes of demonic-like figures in theatre, ghotic horror movies, comicbooks and concept art projects.
— A funeral cloak lined with fiery cloth, or how to dress a demon? On looks and wardrobe of demonic-like figures in the literature and paintings of 19th and 20th centuries.
— Steampunk. Neovictorian trend in contemporary fashion.
