The Biographic senes presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 5 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French artist and leading light of Impressionism, whose paintings brilliantly capture the movement of ballet dancers. What, perhaps, they don't know is that by his mid-twenties he had made over 7 copies of other artists' works; that he produced 1,5 studies of ballet dancers, one of which sold in 1999 for over GBP17 million; and that, although Degas exhibited only one sculpture in his lifetime, 15 wax figures were found in his studio after his death.
