The French mail carrier who spent 33 years building Le Palais idéal or the "Ideal Palace"

Richard Dadd, Art, Madness and Murder

His horrific experiences in the trenches inspired a series of 50 drypoint and aquatint etchings published as 'Der Krieg' in 1924.

The life and legacy of Rudolphe Bresdin visionary etcher and lithographer and bohemian.

Egon Schiele's (1890 – 1918) death bed sketch of his wife Edith, who was six months pregnant at the time. He himself was dying even as...

Photographer Weegee describes his haunting meeting with an 81 year old Alfred Stieglitz. From his book Naked City.

Etchings made by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) dubbed by some as his "Dirty Little Secrets"

Jean Genet asks a BBC film crew why they don't rebel.

The art of decay. Albert Pinkham Ryder's paintings decay over time due to his use of unstable materials.

Throughout his life William Blake claimed to have seen visions of people from the remote past, as well as deceased friends.

The life and imagination of Bruno Schulz including drawings, a film of the mural discovery and a newly discovered short story by Schulz

Francisco Goya's Black Paintings

Clemente Susini's (1754–1814) vividly accurate but macabre wax models, both beautiful and disturbing.

"I created a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications..Of course I was advertising my own conceptual ideas,

Four Text Collages (Project for a New Novel), by J. G. Ballard. Experimental text collages by Ballard intended as a condensed novel.

The lifework of James Hampton a janitor who secretly built a large assemblage of religious art.

Georgia O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia led her to create these paintings.

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was a self-taught artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who created thousands of paintings...

An influential series of prints started in 1745. 16 imaginary subterranean prisons with winding stairs strange architecture.

In the 1960s architect Ron Herron (1930 - 1994) designed collages of his concept of Walking Cities.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) photography. Most famous for his studies in locomotion and it's influence on the invention of cinema

Portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe obsessively

Incredibly beautiful stained glass windows by Harry Clarke (1889 – 1931)

Infernal Dictionary (1818) by Jacques Collin de Plancy is a book of demonology it describes demons and organises them into hierarchies.

Anne Brigman (1869 - 1950) depicted herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada.

“Illness, madness and death were the black angels that watched over my cradle and have since followed me through life,”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) died of a heart-attack 7th July. Shortly before his death he looked back on his life and drew this cartoon

A compendium of demons and magic with the enticing warning "Do not touch me" inscribed on the title page.

The only known film footage of the French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) at work painting lilies in his garden at Giverny in (1914

Rare footage of Pierre-August Renoir painting at home (1915) aged 74.

Images from The Diary of Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) Frida Kahlo “Anguish and pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process”

The Entire City by Max Ernst (1891–1976) a series of around 12 paintings on the same theme.

At the age of 18 Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) sustained horrific injuries when she was involved in a bus collision in Mexico City.