Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510): "The Birth of Venus." (c. 1482). Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
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Michelangelo [Michelangelo Buonarroti], 1475-1564. The Creation of Adam Fresco (1510). Detail of the Sistine ceiling. Sistine Chapel, Vatican.
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Jacopo Carrucci The Three Graces
the Reunion des Musees Nationaux, France.
"Diane Chasseresse," School of Fontainebleau.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
In the painting "Jupiter In the Guise of Diana and the Nymph Callisto," by Francois Boucher (1759), Jupiter pretends to be Diana and whispers in Callisto's ear.
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Renaissance panel ceiling by Baldassare Peruzzi entitled "The Rape of Ganymede." (c. 1509-14). Villa Farnesina, Rome, Italy.
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Renaissance painting (16th century) depicting Galatea. Villa Farnesina, Rome, Italy.
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Guido Reni The Victorious Samson Baroque painting (17th century). Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy.
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Giulio Aristide Sartorio The Gorgon and the Heroes. European painting (19th - 20th century). Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy.
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Renaissance painting (1538). Venus of Urbino. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. Titian [Tiziano Vecellio], c.1488/90-1576
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The drawing, "Study of Apollo" by Domenico Veneziano (1410-1461), an Italian Renaissance painter.
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The Venus de Milo is perhaps the most famous of all antique statues housed at the Louvre museum in Paris, France.
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This statue represents the Roman god, Neptune, who like the Greek god, Poseidon, ruled the sea. This statue stands on the island of Crete.
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Statue of Perseus. Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy
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Left section of the freeze (c. 525 B.C.) of the treasure of Siphnioi, entitled "Symposium of the Gods." Delphi, Greece.
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Mural of the winged horse Pegasus, Turkey.
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