Gorinto (Five Elements’ Stupa)

Aphrodite and Adonis in Etruscan Amber (detail of fibula)

Disillusion, Francesco Queirolo. San Severo Chapel, Naples

Mars and Venus, detail of the fresco of the Wedding of Hercules, Pompeii

Ondine rising from the fountain. Bradley Ives

Head of a Woman, Leonardo Da Vinci

Caravaggio's Bacchus (detail)

Mephistopheles, Eduard Von Grutzer

Matthew and the Angel, detail, Giovanni Ambrogio Ficino

William Adolphe Bouguereau, Cupid with a Butterfly

Flora, detail of a fresco from Villa Arianna in ancient Stabia

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Birth of Venus

Rembrandt, Saul and David

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait

The Birth of Venus, detail, Sandro Botticelli

Jacob-Fransz van der Merck, Lute Player

Salome with the Head of the Baptist, detail, Bernardino Luini

Old Man in the Manner of St. Paul, Rembrandt

The Heavy Burden of Love (Japanese Noh-Play)

The Rasamandala, Krishna’s Cosmic Dance with Gopis

Pensive Athena (c. 470-460 BC, Greek, Acropolis Museum, Athens)

Mosaic floor from the excavations of ancient Ostia

The Virgin Mary, Bernardo Daddi

Perugino, The Archangel Raphael with Tobias

First secret confidence with Venus. Francois Jouffroy

Priest Baozhi (Hoshi Washo)

Statue of Apollo (Kouros) (100 BC – AD 79)

Pyramid of Cheops in Giza

High Official’s Mummy Mask (14th century BC)

Half-Male, Half-Female Mask (Thai)

William Blake, Death's Door

Margherite, William Bouguereau

Sphinx and Pyramid of Cheops at Giza.

Ritratto di Ginevra De’ Benci, Leonardo

The secret, William Bouguereau

William Blake, The Resurrection

Our Lady of Peace. Pinturicchio

The Dome of Creation (detail). St. Mark's Basilica (Venice)

Portrait of a Man, Sandro Botticelli

Van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait with detail of mirror

Head of Queen Hatshepsut depicted as Osiris.

Wiligelmo’s Workshop (12th century)

Offering Bearers (c. 1800 BC)

Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of a Man

Madonna with Child, Saint John with the Lamb, Bernardino Luini

The soap bubble. Ettore Tito

Polirone Abbey. San Benedetto Po (Mantua)

Veronese, Repentant Magdalene