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Degas' photographic nocturnes evoke a Halloween world of phantasms and ghostly intimations, with death often lurking in the shadows.
Caravaggio contributes a typically disturbing canvas, an ugly Sleeping Cupid with intimations of death (Hall 32, Education of Jupiter).
The story seems self-conscious, heavy-handed in its intimations of meaning via symbols, preoccupied not with its characters but with its intention of being larger than itself.
Intimations of his own mortality turned out to be premature.
Is it my imagination or do I detect intimations that black is on its way out?