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6 fairest daughter of heaven and waves: Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus, 1482-1485
14 a message from the realm of alchemy: Piero di Cosimo The Death of Procris, c. 1495
22 Strange quartet: Hans Baldung Grien The Three Stages of Life, with Death, c. 1509/1510
28 the goddess with the mercenary’s hat: Niklaus Manuel Deutsch The Judgement of Paris, 1516/1528
34 from the canopy of heaven to a four-poster bed: Titian Venus of Urbino, c. 1538
42 the third voyeur stood before the canvas: Tintoretto Susanna and the Elders, c. 1555/1556
50 two cool beauties in the tub: School of Fontainebleau Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters, c. 1600
58 a nude for the pious king: Diego Velázquez Venus at Her Mirror (The Rokeby Venus), c. 1644–1648
66 a lecherous bull as sweet seducer: François Boucher The Rape of Europa, 1747
74 a Romantic’s asiatic tour de force: Eugène Delacroix The Death of Sardanapalus, c. 1827
82 a fragrance of women and the Orient: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres The Turkish Bath, 1852–1859, modified in 1862
88 a naked woman amongst gentlemen: Édouard Manet Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863
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