books.google.ca - The mythical artist, heroic and rebellious, isolated and suffering, is the creation of late-18th-century Romanticism. Throughout the 19th century this powerful myth influenced the way people thought and wrote about artists and, more importantly, the way artists thought about––and depicted––themselves....http://books.google.ca/books/about/Rebels_and_Martyrs.html?id=7tmNOw_HvJAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRebels and Martyrs
