{"product_id":"madmans-gallery","title":"Madmans Gallery","description":"\u003cb\u003eEnter \u003ci\u003eThe Madman's Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e - 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the author of the bestseller \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Madman’s Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003eSunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e Literature Book of the Year 2020, Radio 4 \u003ci\u003eBook of the Week\u003c\/i\u003e) comes an extraordinary new illustrated collection. This unique exhibition gathers more than a hundred magnificent works, each chosen for their \u003cb\u003estriking beauty, weirdness and captivating story\u003c\/b\u003e behind their creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Obscure and forgotten treasures sit alongside famous masterpieces with secret stories to tell. Here are Doom paintings, screaming sculptures, magical manuscripts, impossible architecture, \u003cb\u003edog-headed saints\u003c\/b\u003e, angel musketeers and the first \u003cb\u003eportrait of a cannibal\u003c\/b\u003e. 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 \u003cb\u003enude Mona Lisa\u003c\/b\u003e, the gruesome ingredients of lost pigments, the \u003cb\u003ewerewolf legion of the Roman army\u003c\/b\u003e, and the Italian monk who levitated so often he’s recognised as the patron saint of aeroplane passengers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom prehistoric cave art to portraits painted by artificial intelligence, \u003ci\u003eThe Madman’s Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘…a feast of artistic curiosities’ – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘What that last book did for bibliophiles, this \u003cb\u003enew, beautifully produced and elegantly written anthology\u003c\/b\u003e 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.’ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Extraordinary’ – \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtists \u0026amp; Illustrators\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315402318206,"sku":"NW9781398503571","price":21.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781398503571.jpg?v=1778698120","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/madmans-gallery","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}