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El Bosco
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El Barco de los locos (1490-1500)
(The Ship of Fools)
Oil on panel. Louvre, Paris, France
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Bell, Sir Charles
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Hombre loco atado con cadenas
(The Maniac)
Stereotype image of madman, 1806.
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Escultura en el
Rijks Musseum
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Geraert Lambertsz
Escultura de una Loca desnuda
Rijks Musseum. Amsterdam. Países Bajos
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This naked woman, desperately twisted, represents a madwoman. The
sculpture is almost three metres tall, including the plinth, and was
placed in Amsterdam's mental hospital or 'Dolhuis' early in the
seventeenth century. The mentally ill were known as 'dollen', or lunatics.
The sculpture is made of sandstone and was probably the work of Geraert
Lambertsz, a colleague of Hendrick de Keyser. The sculptor has cleverly
expressed the woman's inconsolable fear and frenzy as she pulls out her
hair in misery. Her clothes have fallen off and her naked, twisted body
emphasises her insanity, the tension radiating from her entire body. |
Géricault,
Theodore
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Mujer loca
Madwoman, Musée des Beaux-Arts at London.
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La jugadora (c. 1822)
The Woman with Gambling Mania
Oil on canvas
77 x 65 cm
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Dibujo de un loco (1806)
Copia de El Loco de Charles Bell
Stereotype image of madman, from Charles Bell.
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Delacroix, Eugene
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Torcuato de Taso en el hospital de locos (1839)
Taso in the insane
asylum
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Vallés
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La demencia de Doña Juana (1867)
Óleo sobre lienzo, 238 x 313,5 cm.
Museo del Prado. Madrid
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Picasso
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El Loco (1904)
Acuarela sobre papel. 86 x 35.
Museo Picasso. Barcelona
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© Sucesión Pablo Picasso. VEGAP, A Coruña, 2005. |
Goya, Francisco de
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¿Locos en el manicomio? (1746-1828)
Óleo.
Museo del Monasterio de Guadalupe. Guadalupe (Cáceres).
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Corral de Locos (1793-94)
(Yard with Lunatics)
Oil on tinplate, 43.8 x 32.7 cm
Meadows Museum, Dallas
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Casa de Locos
Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Madrid
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Klimt
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Las tres Gorgonas: la Enfermedad, la Locura y la Muerte
(The three Gorgones: sickness, madness,
death)
Beethovenfrieze: 'The hostile forces' (detail), 1902
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Wauters, Emile
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Locura de Hugo van der Goes
The Madness of Hugo van der Goes, 1872.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.
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The artistic heritage of Belgium was a key factor in
any sense of a unified national past. A number of artists turned to the
lives of past artists for their subjects. Emile Wauters (1846-1933)
combined the Romantic interest in psychology and the role of insanity in
artistic creativity in his haunting vision of The Madness of Hugo van der
Goes (1872); Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels). Hugo van der Goes (d.
1482) was a very gifted painter who retired from the world in 1475 and
entered a monastery in search of a cure for his mental illness. He was
stricken while returning from a trip to Rome, according to an account
written by Gaspar de Ofhuys, the infirmarius of the Roode Clooster, a
monastery near Brussels which sheltered van der Goes.
The author of this report had
been a young novitiate at the time of van der Goes' illness. He speculated
that the illness may have been sent by Divine Providence, or may have
stemmed from natural causes, such as "the malignity of corrupt humors that
predominate in the human body." Ofhuys noted that van der Goes was "deeply
troubled by the thought of how he could ever finish the works of art he
wanted to paint," and also perhaps drank too much wine. Wauters' brother
A.J. Wauters, was a noted art historian who had written a biography of
Hugo van der Goes in 1864; he undoubtedly brought the chronicles of the
artist's madness to the attention of his brother.
Emile Wauters portrayed van
der Goes in the monastery, in the grip of his melancholic depression,
while young boys sing to ease his spirits. This picture, with its subject
of artistic madness, has fascinated many later observers intrigued by the
relationship between artistic creation and insanity. Vincent van Gogh
wrote to his brother Theo in 1888:
"As a matter of fact, I am
again pretty nearly reduced to the madness of Hugo van der Goes in Emil
Wauters's picture. And if it were not that I have almost a double nature,
that of a monk and that of a painter, as it were, I should have been
reduced, and that long ago, completely and utterly, to the aforesaid
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