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[RPB]

My only experience so far with unhappiness from losing a masterpiece was when a whole stockpile of masterpiece furniture was crushed in a cave-in, which made my legendary mason go ballistic (duh). Then this game I accidentally dug up a single masterpiece engraving (actually I dug it up on purpose, I engraved it on accident) and the engraver went from ecstatic to nonstop tantrums. Is it really supposed to cause THIS MUCH unhappiness? Her thoughts look like this:

She slept in a very good room recently. She enjoyed throwing something recently. She had a truly decadent drink lately. She was satisfied at work lately. She admired a fine Table lately. She had a fine drink lately.  She had a fine drink lately. She has suffered the travesty of art defacement.

And she's still constantly miserable. Apparently all those happy thoughts aren't enough to counter that one instance of art defacement.

[Rollory]

Hey, Leo, y'know that Lisa or Mona or whatever her name is chick you just spent however many months on?  Well, I figured she needed bigger boobs, so I went ahead and painted some on.  Also a mustache, cause it's funny, y'know?  Hehe.  

Hey, man, have a beer and enjoy the sunshine, it's all cool.

[RPB]

Ok, really. If someone cut up the Mona Lisa, Leonardo wouldn't go on a murderous rampage throughout Italy tearing the limbs off of random villagers and demolishing bridges with his bare hands. Artists should go pissed, not psychopathic like they currently do.

[RPB]

...and, now the engraver finally gets arrested for her crimes and she's suddenly ecstatic. I guess she's REALLY into S&M... as soon as she gets chained up, she's thrilled.

[qalnor]

Yeah I found out this yesterday.

My engraver was so angry, she decided to walk upon the chasm bridge and destroy it, sending her to her death and the death of a pony.

As well as the death of productivity until I managed to get the bridge put back up.

Chains are a good thing.

[RPB]

Also, it's not just that they get really really unhappy. It happened again, and just like last time the engraver stayed ecstatic for several weeks. After watching her for a while and not seeing any trend towards unhappiness I gave up and went to watch other things, until surprise! She's throwing tantrums again. So basically they just get slowly unhappier forever.

OH FUCK! She just broke the sheriff's foot when he came to arrest her for her latest fistfight. Now he's just lying there and it won't assign any other guards to arrest her. So now apparently I'm stuck with a berserk artist until she's either kills every last dwarf off or manages to drop herself in the river or chasm. LEONARDO SMASH!

[qalnor]

If she walks behind a door of a room you dont' care about it you can lock it. I could have done that with my engraver one or two times, but I was still laboring under the delusion that he would start behaving.

[RPB]

Yeah, but I use wide hallways and open rooms with as few doors as possible (bottlenecks slow everyone down so much), so chances are I won't be able to lock her up without at least forcing a huge detour. I guess she will eventually end up going to her room, though.

[dav]

I believe there was a case in the 1800's where an artist murdered a man who destroyed his work.  The jury let him off because of understandable aggravated insanity.  Basically the judge said that he got what he had coming.  

I know plenty of art *history* buffs who would kill over destroying a masterpiece, much less throw things.  So . . . yeah.

[RPB]

OK, that makes perfect sense. Because taking revenge on the guy who did it = GOING PERMANENTLY INSANE AND KILLING EVERY LAST PERSON YOU SEE.

[Toady One]

Dwarven anger is like a red diamond, condensed into a smaller space than usual.

Right now any art defacement breaks a dwarf pretty much.  That's kind of an arbitrary decision based on their dwarfness.  Does this ecstasy happen when they enter prison or when they leave?

[RPB]

I've seen it happen with both. When they leave it actually gives them the happy "released from prison" thought, but when she was imprisoned she just spontaneously went from miserable to ecstatic without any new thoughts.

[Upthorn]

I suspect that being in prison causes negation of all non-prison related unhappiness, at least for the duration.

Since your dwarf was ecstatic aside from the art efacement, being thrown in the clink would return her to that mood.