Top painting. I tweeted this bully-wee about it the other day:
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Like Hockney's ‘They are perfectly safe This is a still’, Botticelli's "Venus & Mars" freezes its subjects in time, a second before the faun blows his conch in Mars' ear and he is startled awake to see a 'knight' bearing down on him. Two perpetual moments before chaos.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
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