Lucy Higgott’s Reviews > Muse: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History's Masterpieces > Status Update

Learning that some of the artists whose art I enjoy were actually horrible people 🙃 Most of these artists cheat on their spouses, leave their husbands/wives/children for other partners. One of them who left her husband and daughter for Salvador Dali, her daughter said I never saw her. This woman then made Dali sign hundreds of bits of paper so artists could make forgeries and she could sell them as real.

Frida Kahlos husband apparently started a relationship with her sister… men

Artemisia Gentileschi was raped by her fathers friend, he was actually convicted but the decision was overturned by the pope. She suffered the stigma of being a rape victim in 1616. Kind of reminded me of 21st century USA.

Never have thought a book would make me think da Vinci was a groomer