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Words and pictures:

(p.4) Woman in White
(p.7) Stanley Spencer
(p.31) Augustus John
(p.41) Cranach's Eve
(p.140) Gainsborough
(p.166) Mrs Dalloway
(p.188) Lucio Fontana
(p.264) Gwen John

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  After Anjelica (detail)       

'If she had been a work of art, she would have been the Eve of Cranach, rather than the Eve of Spencer – at a moment before the serpent brought knowledge.' (p. 41)

Lucas Cranach the Elder (c.1472–1553), Adam and Eve (1526)

Cranach painting

Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London