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What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painter and Sculptors (
Quirk Books
October 2008
On Sale: October 15, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 159474257X
EAN: 9781594742576
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Non-Fiction History
In the tradition of our best-selling Secret Lives of the
U.S. Presidents (120 000 copies in print) here are
outrageous and uncensored profiles of the world's greatest
artists complete with hundreds of little-known politically
incorrect and downright bizarre facts. Consider: ï Michelangelo had such repellant body odor that his
assistants couldn't stand working for him.
ï Pablo Picasso did jail time for ripping off several
statues from the Louvre.
ï Gabriel Dante Rossetti's favorite pet was a wombat that
slept on his dining room table.
ï Vincent van Gogh sometimes ate paint directly from the tube.
ï Georgia O'Keeffe liked to paint in the nude.
ï Salvador DalÌ concocted a perfume from dung to attract the
attention of his future wife. With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Leonardo
(accused sodomist) to Caravaggio (convicted murderer) to
Edward Hopper (alleged wife beater) Secret Lives of Great
Artists is an art history lesson you'll never forget!
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