Countess Dracula from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the USA as a double-bill with "The Vampire Lovers", and from Carlton in the UK in a box set with "Twins of Evil" and "Vampire Circus". Synapse released a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack in the U.S. in 2014, which featured a new high-definition transfer. Countess Dracula Countess Dracula is a 1971 British Hammer horror film based on the legends surrounding the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory. The film was produced by Alexander Paal and directed by Peter Sasdy, both Hungarian émigrés working in England. The original music score was composed by Harry Robertson. "Countess Dracula" was also released on
The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet (Claude Lorrain) The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet (Claude Lorrain) The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet is a mid-17th century painting by French artist Claude Lorrain. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Claude Lorrain painted "The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet" around 1643 at the behest of Cardinal Girolamo Farnese. The scene is Lorrain's take on a famed event in Book 5 of the "Aeneid" in which the exiled women of Troy, spurred on by the Hellenistic goddess Juno, burn the Trojan fleet to