Under the theme of Bathing, a collection of great paintings might easily ignore a shameless sexual fantasy of an 82-year-old artist: Ingres (1780-1867) The Turkish Bath at the Louvre, Paris
But the dense steamy group of nudes bathing as though in preparation for some erotic ritual is a masterpiece by a ' respectable painter whose sensuality has been described by poet and critic Baudelaire 'as robust and nourishing as love in the days of the ancients'. Written and presented by Anita Brookner
Director KENNETH CORDEN
(Tomorrow: The Tub ' by Degas)