Art in the Land

Art in the Land is a netbook article regarding various genres of Art in Ravenloft.

Author: Christopher Dale Nichols
Subtitle: By Prof. Noah Morgan, Mordentshire University, School of Arts (Mordentshire University)
Published in: The Book of Souls

Painting

• Richard Upton Pickman, a painter of debased humanoids, popular in G'Henna
• Horatio Ontrangio, abstract artist patronned by Lord Hugo von Hauer, favored in Darkon. His most famous work Dark Side of the Moon hung in the Museum of Il Aluk
• The gallery of Comte Stezen D’Polarno of Ghastria
• Borigia Vetighetto of Borca, a landscape painter, born in 620 BC, died in 686 BC, painted Ils Sont a Ville du Mort a prophetic cityscape of Necropolis
• Cats-Eyes Gallery in Egertus, owned by Gerry Olaaf, who claims the artists are patients from the Clinic for the Mentally Distressed
• Michael van Bluhdt (700 BC to 740 BC) former Falkovnian soldier, painted battles of Dead Man's Campaign. Resided in Toyalis. Finest piece: Death and Brutality

Sculpture

• Laars Skolsson of Ludendorf, realistic sculptor, works on Skolskin Island, rumors that his works are bought from traders near Demise.
• Primitive stone gnome statues in woods between East Timori Road and the Darkon border in Tepest. Rumored to come alive at command of witches. Sir Frederick Luprine commissioned recreations made in Tempe Falls.
• Falkovia Triumphant in Lekar, huge granite statue of a young, mounted Vlad Drakov.
• Statue of General Pieter Delapont in Nomdemal Square in Port-a-lucine. Delapont led the defense of Dementlieu against Falkovnia and was assassinated by Falkovnian sympathizers.
• Gabriel Dunwell, a blacksmith in Habelnik, sculptor of fantastic scenes in metal and stone.

Music

• Massa di Requiem per Shuggay, opera written in Borca in 602 BC, given to Ivana Boritsi in 727 BC by Harolds and Sons, attorneys for the composer, Benvento Chieti Bordighera. Details degrading pursuits, similar to Francois de Penible (here called Marquis de Penible) Only first two acts have been found. Banned nearly everywhere other than Dementlieu, Borca, Richemulot, and Darkon.
• Mysterious and deadly music brought by strangers from across The Nocturnal Sea
• Wilhiem Wagner (541 BC-599 BC, Lamordian) composer of Symphony of the Balinoks.
• Theodorus Paganni (born or died in 718 BC) Kartakan master violinist, composer of Der Tragedaire, rumored to have sold his soul to the devil.

Architecture

• Castle Ravenloft
• Great Temple of Bane in Kantora, Cathedral of Ezra in Levkarest
• The fallen Tower of Nartok, the Stone Towers of Corvia, the Houses on the Lake of Delagia, The churches of the

Eternal Order. The Tower of the Overseer in Martira Bay. The clockworks of Mayvin. The arches of Nartok. The tomb-stone city of Neblus. The Crystal Garden of Rivalis. The Brooding Bridge and Omen Watcher's Tower in Sidnar. The bridges, fountains and aqueducts of Tempe Falls.

• The Grand Opera House of Port-a-lucine, built by the "Mad Architect of Dementlieu," Andre Sanspetre.

Drama

• The Damneable Tragedie of Counte Vonn Zarovych by Demius the Bard, written in 436 BC. Includes an account of Strahd's deal with Inajira.
• The mystery and miracle plays of Ezra, The Morninglord, and The Eternal Order.
• The King in Yellow, banned nearly everywhere, brought from the mists by a mad vistani. Secretly performed by the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign.
• Morte D'Amour, by William On-Arden, a tale of children from rival families falling in love, but the young man dies and the lady is taken by The Phantom Lover.

Prose

• The Romance from Beyond the Grave series of novels: The Dead Travel Fast, Dead but not Forgotten, and Love Lies Dying.
• The Castle of Aornis, Mordenheim, The Vampyr Lord.
• Phillip Edgar, writer of ghost stories.
• The Tales of Howard L. Crofter and the Mists Cycle.
• The Restricted Stacks at the University of Il Aluk Library, including a partial copy of the Madrigorian, a fragment of a text entitled Kitab Al-Azif in the language of al-Kathos; Unausprechlichen Kulten by von Junzt; the Cultes Des Goules detailing Dementlieu and Richemulot; the grimoires Liber Ivonis, De Vermiis Mysteriis, and True Magick; the bestiaries Monstres and Their Kynde, Catalouge of the Undead, and Ye Books of Monstres; two of the Revelations of Glaaki; three Cryptical Books of Hsan; and a complete set of Van Richten’s Guides.
• Holy texts: The Church of Ezra's Medicia Deitus. The Banite Book of Wrath. The Cult of the Morninglord's Light of New Dawn.

Poetry

• Night Faeries, by Lord Darryn of Vuchar, an epic poem about a hero named Thomas tormented by fey.
• Love Songs and Grave Poems, by Lady Veronica Blackstone of Bergovista, dedicated to her lover Sir Rowan Falstone, who died trying to apprehend Malken and now speaks to her from beyond the grave.
• The Black Death, A Plague Chronicle In Verse, credited to The Scrivner, regarding the great plague that struck Richemulot in 697 BC.
• The Curios Museum in Karina holds an Untitled collection of Love Poems written in red ink, that takes a turn for the obscene halfway through.
• Poems by Baron Evensong of Liffe, Azathtoth and Other Horrors by Edward Derby, The People of the Monolith by Justin Geoffrey.