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Detail from <n>Portrait of a Lady in Allegorical Guise</n> by <n>Pierre Mignard</n>, 17th century.

Detail from '<n>Trompe l'oeil with studio wall and vanitas still life</n>' (1668) by <n>Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts</n>.

Detail of <n>Judith</n> (c. 1678) by artist <n>Eglon Hendrik van der Neer</n>.

A detail from <n>Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue</n> by <n>Andrea Mantegna</n>.

A detail from <n>Amor vincit omnia</n> (c. 1602) by <n>Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio</n>.

Spring laundry at the <n>Fifth Season</n> hut in Juta, Georgia. Photo by <n>Louisa Chalatashvili</n>.

<n>An Allegory of Virtue</n> (detail), 1657, by <n>Baroque</n> painter <n>Elisabetta Sirani</n>.

<n>The Sorceress</n> (1887) by <n>Georges Merle</n>.

Detail of <n>Bacchus and Ariadne</n> (c. 1600) by <n>Domenico Fiasella</n>.

A detail from <n>Venus and Cupid</n> (1860) by artist <n>Pierre-Maximilien Delafontaine</n>.

<n>Ottoman Beauty with a Butterfly</n> by British artist <n>Harold H. Piffard</n> (1867-1938).

A detail from <n>Incostanza. An Allegory of Fickleness</n> by artist <n>Abraham I Janssens</n>.

Detail of <n>Saint Donatian</n> from <n>Jan van Eyck</n>'s <n>Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele</n>, c. 1434-36.

Detail of <n>St. Veronica with the Veil</n> (c. 1430) by <n>Robert Campin</n>.

<n>Vestal Virgin Before a Burning Altar</n> by artist <n>Jean-François Sablet</n>.