Venus of Willendorf, Palaeolithic, Gravetian, Austria 25000-20000 BCE.
Aphrodite or “Venus de Milo”, Hellenistic art, c. 100 BCE.
The Annunciation, painting on wood by Simone Martini, 1333.
Ecstasy of St Teresa, Lorenzo Bernini, 1645-1652.
Primavera (Allegory of Spring) (detail), Sandro Botticelli, 1482.
Lady with an ermine, Leonardo da Vinci, 1483-1490.
The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan Van Eyck, 1434.
The Night Watch, Michelangelo, 1526-1531.
Olympia, Edouard Manet, 1863-1865.
Judith and Head of Holofernes II, Gustav Klimt, 19th C.
Art, or the caress of the Sphinx, Ferdinand Khnopff, 1896.
Seated nude (pen and blue ink), Amedeo Modigliani, 20th C.