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1. Photograph of the Reading Room at the British Museum © The Trustees of the British Museum.

2. Photograph of the Rijksmuseum. Photo credit: Pedro Pegenaute, Pegenaute Studio SL, 2012.

3. Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Book, c. 1480. Photo credit: Getty Images.

4. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve. Photo credit: The Courtauld Gallery.

5. Inkblot by Hermann Rorschach, Psychodiagnostik, 1932. First published in English as Psychodiagnostics: A Diagnostic Test Based on Perception,1942.

6. Henry A. Murray, Thematic Apperception Test, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, copyright © 1943 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, copyright renewed 1971 by Henry A. Murray.

7. Saul Rosenzweig, Picture-Frustration Test, (1948) from the Saul Rosenzweig Papers, Archives of the History of American Psychology, The Drs Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, The University of Akron.

8. Ludolf Bakhuysen, Warships in a Heavy Storm, c. 1695. Photo credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

9. Pieter de Hooch, Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard, 1663. Photo credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

10. Leonardo da Vinci, The Madonna Litta, mid-1490s. Photo credit: Getty Images.

11. Pieter Bruegel, Dutch Proverbs, 1559 © bpk / Gemäldegalerie, SMB / Volker-H. Schneider.

12. Xu Zhen, Supermarket, 2007/2015. Photo credit: Thomas Fuesser. Courtesy the artist and ShanghART Gallery. Exhibition view: ‘Xu Zhen Solo Exhibition’, Long Museum, Shanghai, 2015.

13. Xu Zhen, Supermarket, 2007/2014. Photo credit: Eric Gregory Powell. Courtesy the artist, ShanghART Gallery, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. Exhibition view: ‘Xu Zhen – A MadeIn Company Production’, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2014.

14. Photograph of the Sainsbury Centre, photo credit: David Burton / Alamy Stock Photo.

15. Photograph of the Sainsbury Centre, photo credit: Sid Frisby / Alamy Stock Photo.

16. Matthew Darly, The Extravaganza, or The Mountain Head Dress, 1776 © The Trustees of the British Museum.

17. Patrick Begbie, James Craig’s Plan of the New Town, Edinburgh, 1768, National Galleries of Scotland. Photocredit: © National Galleries of Scotland.

18. Caspar Netscher, The Lacemaker, 1662. Photo credit: Bridgeman Images.

19. Hendrick Danckerts, Charles II Presented with a Pineapple, c. 1675–80, Royal Collection Trust. © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019.

20. The Dunmore Pineapple. Photo credit: Undiscovered Scotland.

21. Photograph of the South Tower of St Paul’s Cathedral © The Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral.

22. Paul Cézanne, The Basket of Apples, c. 1893. Photo credit: Getty Images.

23. Kinderdijk Windmill, Alblasserdam. Photo credit: Prisma by Dukas/UIG via Getty Images.

24. Jacob van Ruisdael, The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, c. 1668–70. Reproduced by kind permission of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

25. Kintsugi bowl © Lia_t/Shutterstock.com.

26. Anselm Kiefer, Alkahest, 2011. Photo credit: Charles Duprat, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/Salzburg.

27. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, The Leaning Tree Trunk, c. 1860–65 © The National Gallery, London. Salting Bequest, 1910.

28. Henri Matisse, Woman Reading at a Small Table, c. 1923. © Succession H. Matisse / DACS 2019. Archives Henri Matisse, all rights reserved.

29. Christen Købke, View of Østerbro from Dosseringen, 1838. Photo credit: INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo.

30. Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, Tobias and the Angel, c. 1470–75 © The National Gallery, London.