Every Picture Hides a Story

William Cane has lectured about the subliminal content in great paintings for three decades. A highly sought-after speaker on the college lecture circuit, he has appeared at more than 400 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. A close personal friend of Dr.Wilson Bryan Key—the world’s leading authority on subliminal advertising—Cane edited Key’s final manuscript about the subliminal devices used in contemporary art. A former trial attorney, Cane is the author of a dozen books, including the international bestseller The Art Of Kissing (St. Martin’s Press 1991, revised editions 1995, 2005), translated into twenty languages. With more than 200,000 copies sold in the United States, that title is a backlist staple for St. Martin’s. Cane is also the author of a bestselling book about the Yankees, Clubhouse Confidential (with Luis Castillo, St. Martin’s 2011), The New Testosterone Treatment (with Edward Friedman, Prometheus Books 2013), The Birth Order Book of Love (Da Capo 2008), Fiction Writing Master Class (Writer’s Digest 2015), Sleeping Your Way to the Top (with W. David Brown and Terry Cralle, Sterling Publishing 2016) as well as six other nonfiction books. Cane has appeared on more than a hundred radio and television programs talking about his books. He has been a guest on almost every major television talk show, including Today (twice), The View (three times), Dr. Oz, and Good Morning America. Cane taught English and public speaking at the City University of New York from 2007 to 2019, and he taught English at Boston College from 1987 to 2000. He is also an image consultant at Manhattan Makeovers, specializing in helping attorneys and other professionals enhance their image through understanding the subliminal effect of color and other elements of their wardrobe. A former commercial pilot for a major airline, Athena Pettit was educated at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Harvard Extension School, and the Smithsonian Institution, where she earned a certificate in world art history. Combining work with an abiding love of art, she has traveled to every major city in the world to study paintings in leading museums and collections. She has examined firsthand the works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Sargent, Eakins, and many others in Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, Paris, London, Moscow, St.Petersburg, Beijing, Tokyo, Kyoto, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Athens, Reykjavík, New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. A native New Yorker, Ms. Pettit’s mother is a physician who instilled a love of the arts in her from an early age.

Introduction



Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
Hans Holbein the Younger
El Greco
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Artemisia Gentileschi
Diego Velázquez
Rembrandt van Rijn
Johannes Vermeer
Thomas Gainsborough
Francisco Goya
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Edgar Degas
Winslow Homer
Paul Cézanne
Berthe Morisot
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Mary Cassatt
Thomas Eakins
Vincent van Gogh
John Singer Sargent
Gustav Klimt
Frida Kahlo
Andrew Wyeth