Valeria Pugliese
Tarantula
An anthropological art project in collaboration with Femmes Disclaimer This article should have been posted back in November 2023. My...
top of page
Blog
Valeria Pugliese
- Aug 9, 2023
- 5 min
Heliogabalus: Ode to Anarchy
One month ago I was in Rome. When in Rome, in almost a 40 degrees inferno, I prioritised my visit to the Capitoline Museums; no one...
Valeria Pugliese
- Jun 4, 2023
- 4 min
'Ancora & Ancora' (More & More)
May 2023: celebrating the entrance into my late (very late) twenties with a self-indulgent, sybaritic escape to Sicily. Sicily, ah, my...
Valeria Pugliese
- Apr 24, 2023
- 8 min
Mid-April Paraphernalia
The first two weeks of April 2023 have been 'heterogeneous', an extravagant amalgamation of Beauty, aesthetic exploration, death,...
Valeria Pugliese
- Apr 16, 2023
- 2 min
Opium Dream
Monsieur de Phocas, Jean Lorrain: mid-February, I savoured this book to the end. The weekend after I meandered across the British Museum,...
Valeria Pugliese
- Jan 26, 2023
- 5 min
'Infiniti Auguri alla Nomade'
A celebration of Luisa Casati 142th birthday Memento Mori Sunday 22nd January 2023. It is an arctic early morning in Brompton Cemetery....
Valeria Pugliese
- Dec 30, 2020
- 10 min
À rebours: a "fin du globe" taste for Beauty
The year is dying. I am held captive in a Tier 4 lockdown London. Spleen has been devouring me. My ennui led me to acute political...
Valeria Pugliese
- Nov 17, 2020
- 6 min
Villa Palagonia: the Villa of Monsters
I have got sweet memories about Bagheria: childhood years at the nursery school, the wandering strolls in Corso Umberto I, the...
Valeria Pugliese
- Oct 16, 2020
- 6 min
Aubrey Beardsley: Tate Britain Exhibition
Today, 16th October 2020, London is entering into Tier 2 lock-down. Weekend is coming and I am, this is my new tormented Friday evening...
Valeria Pugliese
- Oct 11, 2020
- 5 min
The Abbey of Thelema: Aleister Crowley in Cefalù
After frustrating months locked in my London flat, my flights have FINALLY not been cancelled; I traveled to Sicily, where I spent two...
Valeria Pugliese
- Oct 7, 2020
- 3 min
Preface: welcome to DeMerteuil.com
Disclaimer: this first blog post may contain newbie engagement awkwardness. Well, good evening and welcome to DeMerteuil.com. My name is...
bottom of page