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The madman's gallery: the strangest paintings, sculptures and other curiosities from the history of art
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Chronicle Books
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2023.
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Venus of Hohle Fels (38,000-33,000bc) and Other Fertility Art 16
Nebra Sky Disc (c.1600bc) 22
Colossal Heads of the Olmec (c.900bc) 26
Tomb of the Diver (c.480bc) and Other Art Made to Be Buried 30
Statue of Glycon, the False Snake Deity (late second century) 36
Doom Paintings (twelfth-thirteenth centuries) 38
Portrait of the Devil, Codex Gigas (early thirteenth century) 42
Japanese Kusozu (thirteenth-nineteenth centuries) and the Art of Death 44
Ripley Scroll (fourteenth century) 48
Wound Man (fifteenth-seventeenth centuries) 52
Arnolfini Portrait (1434), Jan van Eyck 56
Crucifixion Diptych (c.1460) and the Tricky Art of Restoration 60
Portrait of Federko da Montefeltro (c.1473-5), Piero delta Francesca 64
Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-1500), Hieronymus Bosch 68
Unicorn Tapestries (1495-1505) 72
Mona Vanna, the Nude Mona Lisa (c.1510), Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno 78
Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian I (1512-26), Hans Burgkmair the Elder and Others 82
Ugly Duchess (c.1513), Quentin Matsys 88
St Christopher Dog-head (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) 92
Fool's Cap Map of the World (c.1580-90) 96
Composite Art of Arcimboldo (1563-c.1590) 98
Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of Her Sisters (c.1594) 102
Legend of the Balder of Eeklo (c.1550-1650), after Cornelis van Dalem 104
Man Consumed by Flames (1600-10), Isaac Oliver 106
Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes (1612-13) and the Art of Revenge 110
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) and the Art of Theft 112
Tapuya Woman (1641) and the Art of Cannibalism 115
Portrait of Barbara Van Beck (c.1650) 118
Temptation of St Anthony (c.1650), Joos van Craesbeeck 124
Ángeles Arcabuceros - The Art of the Angel Musketeer (seventeenth century) 128
Central African Minkisi Power Figures (seventeenth-twentieth centuries) 132
Competition on the Ponte dei Pugni in Venice (1673), Joseph Heintz the Younger 134
Typus Religionis (c.1700) and the Art of Blasphemy 138
Lucifer's New Row-Barge (c.1722) and the Art of Satire 142
Joseph of Cupertino Takes Flight... (eighteenth century), Ludovico Mazzanti 144
Imaginary Prisons of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1750) 148
Ghost Heads of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1770-83) 154
Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare (1781) and the Art of Dreaming 158
Mr Barker's Monster Panoramas (1789) 161
Interior of a Kitchen (1815), Martin Drölling 164
Francisco Goya's Blacky Paintings (1819-23) 168
Hikeshi-banten (nineteenth century) and the Art of Fighting Fire 172
Coronation of Inês de Castro in 1361 (c.1849), Pierre Charles Comte 176
Fairy Feller's Master-Strode (1855-64), Richard Dadd 178
Portrait of Madame X (1884), John Singer Sargent 180
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed TV (1880-91), Ilya Repin 184
Roses of Heliogabalus (1888), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 187
Bream in 25 Feet of Water Off the West Coast of Scotland (1910), Zarh Pritchard 189
Fate of the Animals (1913), Franz Marc 192
Raoul Hausmann's The Art Critic (1919-20) and the Art of Dada 194
Georgiana Houghton and Spiritualist Art (nineteenth-twentieth centuries) 198
Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí and Surrealist Art 204
Wounded Deer (1946), Frida Kahlo 210
Eternity of Arthur Stace (1932-67) 212
James Hampton's The Throne of the Third Heaven... (c.1950-64) and Other Outsider Art 214
Merda d'Artista (1961), Piero Manzoni 220
Monde Cane Shroud (1961), Yves Klein 224
Art of Pierre Brassau (1964) 228
Getty Kouros (twentieth century) and Other Fakes and Forgeries 232
Marina Abramovic and Performance Art 236
Portrait of Edmond de Belamy (2018) and Other Art by Artificial Intelligence 240.
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