Monsu Desiderio: 40 Paintings By An Art Enigma

Monsu Desiderio was the 17th century art enigma whose epic and phantasmic canvases are now believed to be the collaborative work of two or more Naples-based artists, principally Francois de Nome. De Nome/Desiderio's hallucinatory paintings of biblical, historical and architectural scenes are marked by vast, decadent edifices which dwarf his human figures, who are often engaged in savage acts of cruelty and carnage mirrored in a mise-en-scene of ruination or imminent destruction. This specia...