The Madman's Gallery

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The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities From the History of Art

By Edward Brooke-Hitching

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The Madman's Gallery by Edward Brooke-Hitching takes readers on a captivating journey through the history of art, exploring bizarre and enigmatic masterpieces. The book unveils a collection of fascinating stories behind peculiar artworks, blending art history with intriguing anecdotes. Its unique perspective offers insights into the eccentricities and hidden tales of the art world.
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This book may appeal to you if you're fascinated by the eccentricities of art history and enjoy exploring collections filled with intriguing and unusual artworks. It offers a captivating glimpse into the world of eccentric creativity, perfect for those curious about the bizarre and extraordinary within arts and culture.

The Madman's Gallery

The stories behind some of the most unusual and remarkable artworks from around the world, beautifully illustrated throughout

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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 (Sunday Times 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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The Madman's Gallery by Edward Brooke-Hitching is a beautifully illustrated book that delves into the fascinating world of art curiosities and the bizarre aspects of art history. Reviewers acclaim it as a captivating collection of muses, masterpieces, and unusual inspirations, enriched with lavish illustrations. It's lauded as the perfect gift for art lovers, celebrated for its depth of research and as a visually and intellectually stimulating read.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781398503571

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Illustration: Full Colour Throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Edward Brooke-Hitching Global History History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books The Phantom Atlas (2016), The Golden Atlas (2018), The Sky Atlas (2019), The Madman's Library (2020) and The Devil's Atlas (2021), all of which have been translated into numerous languages; he is also the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015). He is a writer for the BBC series QI. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an incurable cartophile, he lives surrounded by dusty heaps of old maps and books in Berkshire.

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