A clever and beautiful survey of dogs in painting, with a brilliant interpretation of their role at its heart A clever and beautiful survey of dogs in painting, with a brilliant interpretation of their role at its heart T hirty-five thousand years ago, in the Ardèche region of France, Paleolithic artists drew a spectacular bestiary on the walls of the Chauvet cave. Their focus was apex predators, so there were lots of lions, as well as mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses. Dogs were nowhere to be