Renaissance

A surrealist digital collage by artist <n>Welder Wings</n>.

A detail from the painting <n>Adam and Eve</n> (1507) by artist <n>Albrecht Dürer</n>.

A detail from <n>The Creation of Adam</n>, a fresco by <n>Michelangelo</n> on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

A detail from <n>Rogier van der Weyden</n>'s painting <n>Descent from the Cross</n> (c. 1435).

A detail of <n>Flora</n> from <n>Sandro Botticelli</n>'s painting <n>The Birth of Venus</n>, c. 1486.

Detail from a c. 1750 portrait of <n>Barbara of Braganza</n> by an anonymous artist.

<n>Cupid and Psyche</n> by <n>Fortunino Matania</n>.

A detail of The Three Graces from <n>Sandro Botticelli</n>'s painting <n>Primavera</n> (c. 1482).

Detail from <n>Lady with A Shell of Pearls</n>, a painting attributed to <n>Pierre Mignard</n>.

A detail of the figure <n>Flora</n> from <n>Sandro Botticelli</n>'s painting <n>Primavera</n>, c. 1482.

Detail from <n>Anton Raphael Mengs</n>'s 1765 painting, <n>María Luisa of Parma, Princess of Asturias</n>.

Detail from <n>Thomas Lawrence</n>'s 1794 painting, <n>Portrait of Catherine Gray, Lady Manners</n>.

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