Leonardo da Vinci was able to write with one hand while drawing with the other simultaneously.
In the famous 1930 portrait American Gothic by Grant Wood, the couple is meant to be father and daughter, not husband and wife. Their relationship and the picture itself are fictional. Wood actually modeled the couple on his sister, Nan, and the family dentist, Byron McKeeby.
Pablo Picasso had a pet owl. He found the bird injured one day and nursed it back to health.
Vincent van Gogh’s famous Starry Night painting depicts the view from the insane asylum in Provence where he was institutionalized for a time in the 1890s.
There are actually five versions of Edvard Munch’s famous painting, The Scream, including a pastel version, a lithographic print, and two crayon and tempura versions.
The German title under which Munch’s The Scream was originally displayed was The Scream of Nature.
The earliest picture of someone wearing spectacles was painted by an Italian artist named Tommaso da Modena in 1352.
