Illustrations

1.Mortar of Handroanthus chrysanthus wood, 1616–1418 BCE

2.Tony Smith, Die, 1962, fabricated 1968

3.Seated Musician, thirteenth century

4.Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism of Christ, ca. 1488–50, with markings

5.Erle Loran, diagram of Paul Cézanne’s House and Farm at Jas de Bouffan, 1889–90

6.David Bomberg, In the Hold, ca. 1913–14

7.Roger Fry, notes on Leonardo da Vinci, with comparison of ears by Leonardo and Lorenzo di Credi

8.Filippino Lippi, Three Archangels with Tobias, 1485

9.Alesso Baldovinetti, Portrait of a Lady, 1465

10.Walter Richard Sickert, Girl at a Looking-Glass, Little Rachel, 1907

11.Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

12.Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples, ca. 1877–78

13.Pieter Brueghel (attributed), Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, ca. 1560s

14.Caravaggio, Madonna and Child with St. Anne, 1605–6

15.Lucas van Valkenborch, Winter Landscape with Snowfall Near Antwerp, 1575

16.Paul Joseph Jamin, The Vandal with His Share of the Spoils, 1893

17.Julia Margaret Cameron, Juliet Stephen (née Jackson), 1867

18.Paul Klee’s Der Beladene, , 1929, tracing and photograph

19.Viscount (“Jack”) Hastings, The Worker of the Future, 1934

20.Charles Spencelayh, Why War?, 1938

21.Henri Matisse, Marguerite, 1906–7

22.Aina Onabolu, Sisi Nurse, 1922

23.Gerard Sekoto, Girl with Orange, ca. 1942–43

24.Gaganendranath Tagore, Untitled (Calcutta), ca. 1920–25

25.Abanindranath Tagore, Tissarakshita, Queen of Asoka, 1911

26.Jamini Roy (and workshop), Painting, Seated Brahmin, ca. 1935

27.George Blessed, Whippets, ca. 1939