The sun.⁠—The sun.

Indurre umido

[leonurus-cardiaca]

Santa Cecilia-Stefano Maderno (1600)

[leonurus-cardiaca]

[leonurus-cardiaca]

[beatricecenci]

Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822)

Danzatrice che si regge il velo di fronte

[spinmeround]

Fujishima Takeji (Japanese painter, b. in Kagoshima, 1867- 1943), Woman holding an orchid, 1928

[valentineua]

Laughing Fool (c.1500) - Possibly Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (c.1472/1477–1533)

[beatricecenci]

Jacopo Palma il Vecchio (Italian, 1480-1528)

Giovane di profilo

[ancientartarcheology]

Garden, Roman fresco. Casa del Bracciale d' Oro in Pompei, now Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli

[7pleiades7]

The Renaissance of Venus (1877) by Walter Crane (English, 1845 – 1915), tempera on canvas, 138.4 cm (54.4 in) x 184.1 cm (72.4 in), Tate Britain, London

[holespoles]

Saint Anthony Preaching to the Fish in Rimini, detail, 1518, fresco, anonymous painter from the circle of Gerolamo Tessari, Basilica di Sant’Antonio, Padua

[7pleiades7]

Lady Adelaide Chetwynd-Talbot, Countess Brownlow (1844-1917) (c. 1879) by Sir Frederic Leighton (British, 1830 – 1896), oil on canvas, 244 cm (96 in) x 166 cm (65.3 in), National Trust

[venustapolis]

The Love of the Angels (Domenico Morelli, 1892)

[twirld]

The Sarcophagus of the Amazons from Tarquinia, Etruscan (detail, ca. 4th Century BC)

[7pleiades7]

The Siren, (Detail), (c. 1900), by John William Waterhouse (English, 1849 – 1917), oil on canvas, 81 x 53 cm (31.8 x 20.8 in), Private collection

[aqua-regia009]

The Garden of Adonis - Amoretta and Time (1887) by John Dickson Batten

[classic-art-favourites]

Hunting in the Pontine Marshes by Horace Vernet, 1833.

[random-brushstrokes]

Henry Meynell Rheam - La Belle Dame sans Merci (1901)