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May 31, 2016
The Madman as Painter
where he tried to murder a passenger in the carriage in which he was traveling. It had been his intention to go to Austria to assassinate the emperor. He was arrested and taken to an asylum in Clermont, remaining there for ten months before extradition to England. His main treatment in Clermont was cold showers, but these failed to alter his ideas or his state of mind. Dadd believed that his father was an imposter, his real paternal parent being Osiris, and that Robert Dadd, in fact, was an enemy of Osiris, perhaps the Devil himself, intent upon preventing Richard from coming into his divine heritage. | City Journal
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He might have been on to something.
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at May 31, 2016 11:53 AM
Mad is a good foundation for a painter. I was just looking into Camille Claudel, whose lessons under Rodin were literally just that. She really did surpass his genius, but spent I think it was 30 years in the asylum after that.
Another notable artist murderer was Caravaggio.
Posted by: Casey Klahn at May 31, 2016 12:59 PM