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The Madmans Gallery The Strangest Paintings Sculptures And Other Curiosities From The History Of Art Edward Brookehitching

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The Madmans Gallery The Strangest Paintings Sculptures And Other Curiosities From The History Of Art Edward Brookehitching
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 120.67 MB
Pages: 256
Author: Edward Brooke-Hitching
ISBN: 9781797221762, 1797221760
Language: English
Year: 2023

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The Madmans Gallery The Strangest Paintings Sculptures And Other Curiosities From The History Of Art Edward Brookehitching by Edward Brooke-hitching 9781797221762, 1797221760 instant download after payment.

Enter The Madman’s Gallery and discover an extraordinary, illustrated exhibition of the greatest curiosities from the global history of art, featuring one hundred magnificently eccentric antique paintings, engravings, illustrations, and sculptures, each with a fascinatingly bizarre story to tell.
Brought to light from the depths of libraries, museums, dealers, and galleries around the world, these forgotten artistic treasures include portraits of oddballs such as the British explorer with a penchant for riding crocodiles, and the Italian monk who levitated so often he’s recognized as the patron saint of airplane passengers. Discover impossible medieval land yachts, floating churches, and eagle-powered airships. Encounter dog-headed holy men, armies of German giants, 18th-century stuntmen, human chessboards, screaming ghost heads, and more marvels of the human imagination. A captivating odditorium of obscure and engaging characters and works, each expertly brought to life by historian and curator of the strange Edward Brooke-Hitching, here is a richly illustrated and entertaining gallery for lovers of outré art and history.


A GLOBAL SURVEY: Here are European painters who used ground up Egyptian mummies as pigment, examples of the antique Japanese art of 
Gyotaku (fish stone rubbings) using dried fish as printing plates, a Parisian art hoax featuring paintings actually created by a chimpanzee, and much more.
 
ODDITIES ABOUND: Depictions of the demon worms believed to cause toothaches carved into human molars: Check. A nude version of the Mona Lisa painted by the “bad boy” apprentice of Leonardo da Vinci: Here it is. The most admiring portrait of a cannibal likely ever produced: Presented in full color.

EXPERT AUTHOR: Edward Brooke-Hitching is a master of taking visually driven deep dives into unusual historical subjects.

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