Miles J. Unger writes on art, books, and culture for the Economist. Formerly the managing editor of Art New England, he was a contributing writer to the New York Times. He is the author of The Watercolors of Winslow Homer; Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici; Machiavelli: A Biography; and Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces.
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When Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter from Barcelona came to Paris and made himself into the most influential artist of the twentieth century In 1900, an eighteen-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first tri... SEE MORE