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Greek ring dating to c. 350 BC depicting an image of the goddess Aphrodite weighing two figures of Eros. Medium: Gold. Collection of the Getty Museum.
The headless goatriders. Detail from the Antichrist, Germany ca. 1460. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 426, fol. 64v.
Angel from Aurora Consurgens, c.1420. The Aurora consurgens is an alchemical treatise of the 15th century famous for the rich illuminations that accompany it in some manuscripts.
Detail, Water Lilies by Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945). Private Collection.
Sandro Botticelli - Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, ca. 1483 (detail) Italian, 1445-1510 Fresco, detached and mounted on canvas.
“Sfumato,” painted in 1972 by Salvador Dalí. Dalí developed a new technique here, where he embellished the image after first taking paper and scorching and smoking it with a candle.