Anyone who has watched the television series Ways of Seeing, which was first broadcast on BBC Two half a century ago next week, will recall the shock of its opening sequence. A man wearing a striking patterned shirt approaches what appears to be Botticelli’s Venus and Mars inside the National Gallery. Instead of studying it, though, he produces a knife before confidently cutting out a rectangle of canvas and calmly walking away with the goddess’s head.
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