Imelda Marcos left 1,220 pairs of shoes behind when she fled in 1986, which sounds unbeatable until you meet Darlene Flynn’s verified 16,400. From there it becomes a walk through painted feet: Mercury’s winged sandals, kings hiding theirs under a rock, Turkish kabkabs, ballet slippers, wooden working clogs — and van Gogh’s own pair, shown in a digital reconstruction of the colours the canvas has since lost.