Madman's Gallery: The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities from the History of Art

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Cover Half Title Title Page Dedication Contents Introduction Venus of Hohle Fels (38,000-33,000 bc) and Other Fertility Art Nebra Sky Disc (c.1600 bc) Colossal Heads of the Olmec (c.900 bc) Tomb of the Diver (c.480 bc) and Other Art Made to Be Buried Statue of Glycon, the False Snake Deity (late second century) Doom Paintings (twelfth-thirteenth centuries) Portrait of the Devil, Codex Gigas (early thirteenth century) Japanese Kusozu (thirteenth-nineteenth centuries) and the Art of Death Ripley Scroll (fourteenth century) Wound Man (fifteenth-seventeenth centuries) Arnolfini Portrait (1434), Jan van Eyck Crucifixion Diptych (c.1460) and the Tricky Art of Restoration Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro (c.1473-5), Piero della Francesca The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-1500), Hieronymus Bosch Unicorn Tapestries (1495-1505) Mona Vanna, the Nude Mona Lisa (c.1510), Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian I (1512-26), Hans Burgkmair the Elder and Others The Ugly Duchess (c.1513), Quentin Matsys St Christopher Dog-head (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) Fool’s Cap Map of the World (c.1580-90) The Composite Art of Arcimboldo (1563-c.1590) Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters (c.1594) The Legend of the Baker of Eeklo (c.1550-1650), after Cornelis van Dalem Man Consumed by Flames (1600-10), Isaac Oliver Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes (1612-13) and the Art of Revenge Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) and the Art of Theft Tapuya Woman (1641) and the Art of Cannibalism Portrait of Barbara Van Beck (c.1650) The Temptation of St Anthony (c.1650), Joos van Craesbeeck Ángeles Arcabuceros – The Art of the Angel Musketeer (seventeenth century) Central African Minkisi Power Figures (seventeenth-twentieth centuries) Competition on the Ponte dei Pugni in Venice (1673), Joseph Heintz the Younger Typus Religionis (c.1700) and the Art of Blasphemy Lucifer’s New Row-Barge (c.1722) and the Art of Satire Joseph of Cupertino Takes Flight… (eighteenth century), Ludovico Mazzanti The Imaginary Prisons of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1750) The Ghost Heads of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1770-83) Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare (1781) and the Art of Dreaming) Mr Barker’s Monster Panoramas (1789) Interior of a Kitchen (1815), Martin Drölling Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings (1819-23) Hikeshi-banten (nineteenth century) and the Art of Fighting Fire The Coronation of Inês de Castro in 1361 (c.1849), Pierre Charles Comte The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (1855-64), Richard Dadd Portrait of Madame X (1884), John Singer Sargent Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV (1880-91), Ilya Repin The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Bream in 25 Feet of Water Off the West Coast of Scotland (1910), Zarh Pritchard Fate of the Animals (1913), Franz Marc Raoul Hausmann’s The Art Critic (1919-20) and the Art of Dada Georgiana Houghton and Spiritualist Art (nineteenth-twentieth centuries) The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí and Surrealist Art The Wounded Deer (1946), Frida Kahlo The Eternity of Arthur Stace (1932-67) James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven… (c.1950-64) and Other Outsider Art Merda d’Artista (1961), Piero Manzoni Mondo Cane Shroud (1961), Yves Klein The Art of Pierre Brassau (1964) The Getty Kouros (twentieth century) and Other Fakes and Forgeries Marina Abramovic´ and Performance Art Portrait of Edmond de Belamy (2018) and Other Art by Artificial Intelligence Select Bibliography Index Picture Credits Acknowledgements Copyright About Author