Enter The Madman's Gallery - the perfect gift book for any art
lover. Discover an eccentric exploration through the curious
history of art, to find the strangest paintings, sculptures,
drawings and other artistic oddities ever made. From the author of
the bestseller The Madman's Library (SundayTimes Literature Book of
the Year 2020, Radio 4 Book of the Week) comes an extraordinary new
illustrated collection. This unique exhibition gathers more than a
hundred magnificent works, each chosen for their striking beauty,
weirdness and captivating story behind their creation. Obscure and
forgotten treasures sit alongside famous masterpieces with secret
stories to tell. Here are Doom paintings, screaming sculptures,
magical manuscripts, impossible architecture, dog-headed saints,
angel musketeers and the first portrait of a cannibal. Stolen art,
outsider art, ghost art, revenge art, and art painted at the bottom
of the sea take their place alongside scandalous art, forgeries and
hoaxes, art of dreams and nightmares, and cryptic paintings yet to
be decoded. Discover the remarkable Elizabethan portraits of men in
flames, the mystery of the nude Mona Lisa, the gruesome ingredients
of lost pigments, the werewolf legion of the Roman army, and the
Italian monk who levitated so often he's recognised as the patron
saint of aeroplane passengers. From prehistoric cave art to
portraits painted by artificial intelligence, The Madman's Gallery
draws on a remarkable depth of research and variety of images to
form a book that surprises at every turn, and ultimately serves to
celebrate the endless power and creativity of human imagination.
'...a feast of artistic curiosities' - The Telegraph 'What that
last book did for bibliophiles, this new, beautifully produced and
elegantly written anthology does for art lovers ... The research
that has gone into this is prodigious, but Brooke-Hitching loves
storytelling even more than scholarship, and he has a gift for it.'
- The Spectator 'Extraordinary' - Artists & Illustrators
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