The Painter Who Took His Father's Life

Описание: This painter killed his own father. 🥀
Lost in a severe psychotic breakdown, the brilliant young artist Richard Dadd committed the ultimate crime before being confined to the walls of Bedlam asylum for life.

It was behind those prison walls that he spent the next 9 years obsessively creating this microscopic masterpiece, "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" (1855–1864). Working with a magnifying glass, he built an infinite universe of fairies and folklore

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