renaissance

Detail from the 1948 painting <n>Daphne</n> by artist <n>Pyke Koch</n>.

Detail from the painting <n>Cleopatra</n> (1524-1526) by the artist <n>Giampietrino</n>.

Detail of <n>The Three Graces</n> and <n>Mercury</n> from the painting <n>Primavera</n> by <n>Sandro Botticelli</n>.

A detail from <n>The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb</n> (1432) by <n>Hubert van Eyck</n> and <n>Jan van Eyck</n>.

Detail of the eye from a <n>Statue of a Wounded Amazon</n> found in <n>Herculaneum</n>, created before 79 AD.

<n>Bianca Maria Sforza</n>, a c. 1493 portrait by <n>Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis</n>.

Detail from <n>Piero di Cosimo</n>'s '<n>Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci</n>,' c. 1490.

A detail from <n>Annunciation</n> (c. 1472-1475) by <n>Leonardo da Vinci</n>.

<n>Mars, the Bringer of War</n> (2003) by artist <n>Toshiyuki Enoki</n>.