St Paul's From Moor Lane/ As Flies to Wanton Boys

The "Nobile Folios", published in association with Piano Nobile, a London art gallery, are gorgeous multidisciplinary explorations of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artworks. Each folio explores a single work and tries to replicate the experience of seeing it with one's own eyes. The fourth book in the series explores "St Paul's from Moor Lane", a painting by Cyril Mann. Mann casts an intense gaze on London's war-scarred cityscape, revealing the vitality and energy beneath. Alongside eleven color images are an essay by art critic Mark Hudson that contextualizes the painting and a moving story by novelist Veronica Cecil about a cantankerous painter tapping into his creative energies.