Shimmering madness

[image error]There is an amazing blog, called either ru_medart or something I don't understand in Russian, that collects artistic depictions of the mad from the history of art.

It's a wonderful collection of images, and, as you might expect, many of the pictures depict the sort of 'raving madness' that was the stereotype of centuries past.

However, it also has portraits of famous people throughout history who have been mad or have been claimed as mad, as well as some more contemporary paintings and some...