Would you Adam and Eve it?
A study for the mysterious painting 'Allegory' by Thomas Monnington (1902-76) features in Liss Llewellyn’s exhibition of religious art in 20th century Britain. It shows a nude man and woman before a tree, an overt visual reference to Adam and Eve, but one which the artist denied.
“I don’t think this picture has anything to do with the Garden of Eden story,” he said later. “But…