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How long is long enough to look at a work of art?

Toby Ferris goes in quest of Pieter Bruegel the Elder surviving canvases and makes us look with a new eye at each familiar painting

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  • Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels

    Toby Ferris

    4th Estate, pp. 326, £20

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