Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Chaos.
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Chaos
George Frederic Watts, c. 1875
A visionary oil painting from Watts's allegorical cycle 'The House of Life', imagining the primordial state before order: titanic elemental figures heave out of fire and vapour as the world struggles into being. This version, executed by Watts with his studio assistants, is held by Tate, London.