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Color Plates All color plates except PLATE 8 are by the author. 1 Sassetta, Madonna and Child, detail, c. 1435. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 2 Claude Monet, Artist’s Garden at Vetheuil, detail. 1880. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 3 Jean Dubuffet, The Ceremonious One, detail of left flank. 1954. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 4 Alessandro Magnasco, Christ at the Sea of Galilee, detail, c. 1740. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 5 Jackson Pollock, No. 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), detail of lower left center. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 6 Claude Monet, Rouen, West Façade, Sunlight, detail of clock. 1894. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 7 Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait, detail. 1659. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 8 Emil Nolde, Autumn Sea XVIII, entire. 1911. Stiftung Ada und Emil Nolde, Seebüll, Germany. 9 Francis Bacon, Triptych Inspired by T.S.Eliot’s Poem “Sweeney Agonistes,” detail of central canvas. 1957. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington. 10 Cross section of paint from Cima da Conegliano, The Incredulity of St.Thomas. National Gallery, London, no. 816. Photomicrograph courtesy of Ashok Roy. 11 Titian, Venus with a Mirror, detail, c. 1555. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 12 Mosaic gold. 13 Christ and a phoenix, from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ (Hamburg: s.n., 1595). Hand-colored copy, with gold and silver paint, in the Duveen collection. Courtesy of University of Wisconsin, Madison. 14 Jacopo Tintoretto, The Worship of the Golden Calf, detail, c. 1560. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
viii 15 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, View Near Epernon, detail. 1850– 60. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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Introduction WATER AND STONES. Thos
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WHAT PAINTING IS 67 alchemists saw
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WHAT PAINTING IS 83 mysterious ladd
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WHAT PAINTING IS 85 FIG. 2 Noah’s
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WHAT PAINTING IS 87 half-light and
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WHAT PAINTING IS 189 social nicetie
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pine, 123 poppyseed, 123 precious,
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sulfur virgin, 82 of the sun, 177 V