Everything is a miracle.
It is a miracle that one does not dissolve
in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
--Pablo Picasso
Nude in the Bath, Pierre Bonnard
Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David
The Bathers, William Bouguereau
Either you prefer showers or baths. Linda Nochlin explores the painterly obsession with the ritual of bathing in her book, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty.
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