The scandalous stories collected in this book - their heroes are almost all great masters from Leonardo da Vinci (suspected of sodomy) and Caravaggio (accused of murder) to Edward Hopper (beat his wife) - provide an opportunity to see the life of great masters not from the outside, but from the inside, in all its passion, severity and intricacy. Michelangelo smelled so bad that his assistants refused to work with him... Vincent van Gogh sometimes ate paint straight from a tube... Georgia O'Keeffe loved working naked... You will never forget this lesson in the history of art!