Shorn of this extraneous knowledge and coming to painting with eyes innocent of extraneous concepts, the viewer could then be in a position to look at what painting presents directly to his vision complex arrangements of forms and colours which, for reasons thus far unexplained, have the capacity to move the recipient deeply with emotions utterly alien to the emotions of life.
The picture painted presents 16-year-old, 25-stone Precious as the victim, not of social and economic conditions, even partially, but solely of the behaviour of her kind.
And manuscript painting presents inherent problems of its own.
It was also the first painting presented to the gallery at its founding in 1856.
In its slightly blurry, photographic realism, the painting presents an implacably empirical view of the world.
Ms. Ballard likens the production to a medieval painting, presenting a "festive array" of musicians around the singers.
The painting presents the image of a large cube with red, blue and purple sides on a mustard yellow field.
The painting presents a woman in half-body portrait, which has as a backdrop a distant landscape.
One bright-blue-and-yellow painting presents the young Charlotte kneeling on her bed, dreaming of love, with eleven bouncing red hearts cascading from her bowed head.
It is a masterpiece of landscape painting, presenting a panoramic view across a low-lying valley, the mountains rising to the clouds in the distance.
Curators of the exhibition have asked the public to vote on the attribution of the painting, presenting evidence for and against two of Western art's greatest masters as the possible creator of the enigmatic Giustiniani Portrait.
