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by Alain De Botton

p. 160 An Avalanche in the Alps, 1803, oil on canvas, by Philip James de Loutherbourg (Tate, London. © Tate, London 2001)

  p. 162 Chalk Cliffs on Rügen, c. 1818, oil on canvas, by Caspar David Friedrich (Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur/AKG London)

  pp. 179, 190 Cypresses, 1889, pencil, quill and reed pen, brown and black ink on wove paper, 62.2 X 47.1 cm, by Vincent van Gogh (Brooklyn Museum of Art, Frank L. Babbott and A. Augustus Healy Funds. © 2001 Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York)

  p. 179 Self-portrait (detail), 1886/7, oil on artist's board mounted on cradled panel, 41 X 32.5 cm, by Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (1853-90) (Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1954.326 The Art Institute of Chicago. Photograph © 2001, The Art Institute of Chicago. All rights reserved)

  p. 191 Wheat Field with Cypresses (detail), 1889, black crayon, pen, reed pen and brown ink on paper, 47 X 62.5 cm, by Vincent van Gogh (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam/Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

  p. 195 Olive Grove- Orange Sky 1889, oil on canvas, by Vincent van Gogh (Collection Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo)

  p. 198 ‘The Yellow House (Vincent's House), Aries, 1888, oil on canvas, by Vincent van Gogh (Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam/AKG London)

  p. 208 Sunset: Wheat Fields near Aries, 1888, oil on canvas, by Vincent van Gogh (Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur. © 2001)

  p. 211 West India Docks from London A—Z Street Atlas (Reproduced by permission of Geographers' A-Z Map Co. Ltd. Licence No. B1299. This product includes mapping data licensed from Ordnance Survey®. © Crown Copyright 2001. Licence number 100017302)

  p. 211 John Ruskin (detail), 1879, watercolour, by Sir Hubert von Herkomer (Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London)

  p. 221 Study of a Peacock's Breast Feather, 1873, watercolour, by John Ruskin (Collection of the Guild of St George, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust)

  p. 223 Velvet Crab, c. 1870-71, pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, on grey-blue paper, by John Ruskin (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford/Bridgeman Art Library)

  p. 224 Branches, drawing by John Ruskin from John Ruskin's Elements of Drawing, 1857, London

  p. 226 Alpine Peaks, 1846, pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, on three joined sheets, by John Ruskin (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery)

  p. 230 Clouds, engraving byj. C. Armytage after a drawing byj. M. W Turner, from John Ruskin's Modern Painters, Vol. 5, 1860, London

  p. 237 Le Comte Xavier de Maistre (1764-1852) (detail), engraving by Baron de Steuben (Photo: © Roger-Viollet)

  All other photographs were taken by the author.

  Copyright © 2002 by Alain de Botton

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