A predatory wolf was troubling a town in the Apennine Mountains one winter. Its delightful story is the basis of a superb painting by Luc-Olivier Merson, famous for his mosaic in the Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre.
art nouveau
The monumental mural painted by Larsson was intended to be his greatest painting. It turned out to be his most controversial.
