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

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