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1896 painting <n>Sagrado Coração de Jesus Redentor</n> by Portuguese artist <n>António Carneiro</n>.

The <n>Argema mittrei</n> (Madagascar moon moth). Specimen provided by <n>Ilyas Insects</n>.

April page from the 1964 calendar designed by <n>Wim Crouwel</n>.

<n>The Monastery (Ad-Deir)</n> in <n>Petra</n>, Jordan, photographed by <n>Harimao Lee</n>.

<n>Parrot Tulip</n>, a 1985 photograph by <n>Robert Mapplethorpe</n>.

Roman marble copy of the Greek <n>Head of an Amazon (Sciarra type)</n> from the 5th century BC.

<n>Iron corset</n>, ca. 1580-1600. Housed at the <n>Musée de Cluny</n> in Paris.

<n>Flora</n>, also known as <n>Primavera</n>, is a <n>Roman</n> <n>fresco</n> from the 1st century AD.

A cross-section of a <n>pearly nautilus shell</n> from <n>Alec Laurie</n>'s 1973 book, <n>The living oceans</n>.

The <n>Discobolus Lancellotti</n>, a Roman copy of a Greek original by <n>Myron</n>. Photo by <n>Carole Raddato</n>.

<n>Devon Aoki</n> in the <n>La couture nature</n> editorial for <n>Vogue Paris</n>, 2000. Photo by <n>Satoshi Saikusa</n>.

Photo by <n>Paolo Abate</n> in Mantua, Italy.

Photograph by <n>H. Landshoff</n> from the book <n>The Shell: Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design</n>.