Sky Arte's Muse Inquietanti Returns with Mysteries of Artists' Lives

The third season of Muse Inquietanti, a series hosted by Carlo Lucarelli, premieres on Sky Arte HD on December 12. The show explores hidden secrets in art history, covering painters, critics, models, sculptors, and for the first time, musicians, writers, directors, and actors. The opening episode delves into the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe, found delirious on a Baltimore bench on October 3, 1849, repeating the name Reynolds. He died four days later, with all death documents disappearing. Theories include kidnapping for forced voting, rabies from an animal bite, alcohol abuse, delirium tremens, epilepsy, cholera, syphilis, or meningitis. An anonymous obituary in the New York Tribune read: 'Edgar Allan Poe is dead... few will be grieved by it,' possibly written by Reynolds. The second episode focuses on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's obsession with Elizabeth Siddal, his wife who died by laudanum overdose at 32 after a stillbirth. In 1869, Rossetti exhumed her grave to retrieve a poetry notebook he had buried with her, reportedly finding her face intact and her red hair filling the coffin. Siddal was a painter, poet, and muse to the Pre-Raphaelites, famously modeling for Millais's Ophelia, which compromised her health. Rossetti later depicted her as Beatrice in Beata Beatrix.