Most people can name some famous artists and recognize their best-known works. But what's behind all that painting, drawing, and sculpting? What was Leonardo da Vinci's snack of choice while he painted Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile? Why did Georgia O'Keeffe find bones so appealing? Who called Diego Rivera "Frog-Face"? And what is it about artists that makes both their work and their lives so fascinating—to themselves, to their curious neighbors, and to all of us? This book presents the humor and the tragedy in twenty artists' lives as no biography has done before. Humorous anecdotes and little-known facts highlight biographical profiles of twenty distinguished artists, including Michelangelo, Mary Cassatt, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, and Andy Warhol. Profiles the lives and discusses the humor and tragedy of artists of the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, including Georgia O'Keefe, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso
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