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
