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Has hung his own art, uninvited, in the Louvre and MoMA. Banksy Carving Zuccone, he yelled at the marble: 'Speak, damn you!' Donatello Died at 37 on Good Friday, possibly on his own birthday. Raphael At his obscenity trial, a judge burned a drawing in court. Egon Schiele Let strangers use 72 objects on her, including a loaded gun. Marina Abramovic A barber's son, a Royal Academician at just 27 years old. J. M. W. Turner Shot in 1968, declared dead, then revived by a surgeon. Andy Warhol 'Bosch' was not his name but his hometown, Den Bosch. Hieronymus Bosch Left canvases out in the rain, calling it their horse-cure. Edvard Munch Filled his notebooks with backwards, mirror-image writing. Leonardo da Vinci Signed just one work, the Pieta, then never signed again. Michelangelo Has lived in a psychiatric hospital by choice since 1977. Yayoi Kusama Painted at home in a long robe with nothing underneath. Gustav Klimt Impressionism got its name from a critic mocking his work. Claude Monet The most prolific painter ever: about 13,500 paintings. Pablo Picasso Sailed to Portugal to paint a bride for his choosy duke. Jan van Eyck Has hung his own art, uninvited, in the Louvre and MoMA. Banksy Carving Zuccone, he yelled at the marble: 'Speak, damn you!' Donatello Died at 37 on Good Friday, possibly on his own birthday. Raphael At his obscenity trial, a judge burned a drawing in court. Egon Schiele Let strangers use 72 objects on her, including a loaded gun. Marina Abramovic A barber's son, a Royal Academician at just 27 years old. J. M. W. Turner Shot in 1968, declared dead, then revived by a surgeon. Andy Warhol 'Bosch' was not his name but his hometown, Den Bosch. Hieronymus Bosch Left canvases out in the rain, calling it their horse-cure. Edvard Munch Filled his notebooks with backwards, mirror-image writing. Leonardo da Vinci Signed just one work, the Pieta, then never signed again. Michelangelo Has lived in a psychiatric hospital by choice since 1977. Yayoi Kusama Painted at home in a long robe with nothing underneath. Gustav Klimt Impressionism got its name from a critic mocking his work. Claude Monet The most prolific painter ever: about 13,500 paintings. Pablo Picasso Sailed to Portugal to paint a bride for his choosy duke. Jan van Eyck Killed a man, then had a bounty on his own severed head. Caravaggio Spent a decade barely working, and destroyed what she made. Shirin Neshat Learned to paint by making giant Bollywood billboards. M F Husain His job interview for the Pope: a freehand perfect circle. Giotto One of his Card Players sold for around 250 million dollars. Paul Cezanne The Night Watch is daylight, just darkened by old grime. Rembrandt van Rijn A third of her works are self-portraits, made while alone. Frida Kahlo Painted The Starry Night from his asylum room window. Vincent van Gogh For all his fame, only about 120 works survive, no prints. Diego Velázquez One of eighteen children, and one of only three to survive. Albrecht Dürer Before art, he guarded Edo Castle as a hired fire warden. Utagawa Hiroshige The Nazis called him degenerate and seized 57 of his works. Wassily Kandinsky Forgotten for 200 years, then rediscovered in the 1860s. Johannes Vermeer She's her own model, stylist, makeup artist, and shooter. Cindy Sherman He was around 70 when he made The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Katsushika Hokusai Her Judith was so bloody a duchess hid it in a dark corner. Artemisia Gentileschi Killed a man, then had a bounty on his own severed head. Caravaggio Spent a decade barely working, and destroyed what she made. Shirin Neshat Learned to paint by making giant Bollywood billboards. M F Husain His job interview for the Pope: a freehand perfect circle. Giotto One of his Card Players sold for around 250 million dollars. Paul Cezanne The Night Watch is daylight, just darkened by old grime. Rembrandt van Rijn A third of her works are self-portraits, made while alone. Frida Kahlo Painted The Starry Night from his asylum room window. Vincent van Gogh For all his fame, only about 120 works survive, no prints. Diego Velázquez One of eighteen children, and one of only three to survive. Albrecht Dürer Before art, he guarded Edo Castle as a hired fire warden. Utagawa Hiroshige The Nazis called him degenerate and seized 57 of his works. Wassily Kandinsky Forgotten for 200 years, then rediscovered in the 1860s. Johannes Vermeer She's her own model, stylist, makeup artist, and shooter. Cindy Sherman He was around 70 when he made The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Katsushika Hokusai Her Judith was so bloody a duchess hid it in a dark corner. Artemisia Gentileschi Looking for someone?
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