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{{Infobox Individual
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| individual name = Guiseppe di Cattivo
| individual name = Guiseppe di Cattivo
| image          = [[file:Giuseppe_di_Cattivo_1.jpg|250px]]
| image          = [[File:Giuseppe_di_Cattivo_1.jpg|250px]]
| alias          = The Artist of Nightmares
| alias          = The Artist of Nightmares
| species=[[Human]]
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'''Giuseppe di Cattivo''' was a contemporary of [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and a fellow artist, as well as his neighbour.
'''Giuseppe di Cattivo''' was a contemporary of [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and a fellow artist, as well as his neighbour.


==Biography==
== Biography ==
Giuseppe di Cattivo was renowned for the disturbing nature and morbosity of his paintings, for which he became known as "The Artist of Nightmares". At one point in his life he found a sentient metiorite and used its minerals as a material for his pigments. Using this paint he created his masterpiece, called [[The Abomination]], and lent some of it to da Vinci for one copy of the [[Mona Lisa]] (the copy that would eventually be found in the Louvre, Paris). The Abomination however was too terrible to lay eyes on without going mad. Gripped by fear, di Cattivo locked the painting in a vault made of wood from the hangman's gallows, with a [[Chinese Puzzle Box]] acting as the lock. The following morning, he was found in his Florence apartment, completely insane.
Giuseppe di Cattivo was renowned for the disturbing nature and morbosity of his paintings, for which he became known as "The Artist of Nightmares". At one point in his life he found a sentient metiorite and used its minerals as a material for his pigments. Using this paint he created his masterpiece, called [[The Abomination]], and lent some of it to da Vinci for one copy of the [[Mona Lisa]] (the copy that would eventually be found in the Louvre, Paris). The Abomination however was too terrible to lay eyes on without going mad. Gripped by fear, di Cattivo locked the painting in a vault made of wood from the hangman's gallows, with a [[Chinese Puzzle Box]] acting as the lock. The following morning, he was found in his Florence apartment, completely insane.


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Revision as of 08:13, 4 November 2011

Giuseppe di Cattivo was a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and a fellow artist, as well as his neighbour.

Biography

Giuseppe di Cattivo was renowned for the disturbing nature and morbosity of his paintings, for which he became known as "The Artist of Nightmares". At one point in his life he found a sentient metiorite and used its minerals as a material for his pigments. Using this paint he created his masterpiece, called The Abomination, and lent some of it to da Vinci for one copy of the Mona Lisa (the copy that would eventually be found in the Louvre, Paris). The Abomination however was too terrible to lay eyes on without going mad. Gripped by fear, di Cattivo locked the painting in a vault made of wood from the hangman's gallows, with a Chinese Puzzle Box acting as the lock. The following morning, he was found in his Florence apartment, completely insane.

The International Gallery of London took possession of a collection of his works in Victorian times, and stored them in the vaults in the basement. (SJA: Mona Lisa's Revenge)