Name: Secret Lives of Great Artists:
What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painters and Sculptors
Format: PDF
Pages: 145



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:

- Michelangelo had such repellant body odor that his assistants couldn't
stand working for him.

- Pablo Picasso did jail time for ripping off several statues from the
Louvre.

- Gabriel Dante Rossetti's favorite pet was a wombat that slept on his
dining room table.

- Vincent van Gogh sometimes ate paint directly from the tube.

- Georgia O'Keeffe liked to paint in the nude.

- Salvador DalI 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!