…bodies, all nude, all being eaten by snakes and I don't know. There's a fantastic thing going on. But in that, you see, Van Eyck had a ball painting that because in Medieval way it was the only way you could get away with painting nudes and sexy…

…the vision of let's say, Giotto with its amazing transparency, to Rembrandt with its density, to the Great Flemish Painters like Van Eyck, who begin a photographic realism, on to the similar painters of the 19th century, and then through Picasso and so on,…

…the highest reach of western technique comes with people like the Great Flemish masters Peter De hooch and Van Dyck and Van Eyck and so on who represent what you might call the peak of photographic realism, which eventually deteriorated into the sentimental…

…of situation you find when you turn up a big rock and there's all that going on underneath. Now there's no question whatever that Van Eyck the painter had more fun painting that part of the picture than he did painting the top part. So in the same way…

…bodies, all nude, all being eaten by snakes, and I don't know there's a fantastic thing going on. But in that, you see, Van Eyck had a ball painting that because in Medieval way it was the only way you could get away with painting nudes and sexy…