Above: Roman sculpture from a villa in Pompeii, Italy, from the 1st century B.C.
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1 shows "St. Anne, the Virgin and the Infant" by Leonardo Da Vinci, 1503-1519.
2 shows the much over-hyped "Mona Lisa" or "La Gioconda" by Leonardo Da Vinci, 1503-1506
3 and 4 are detail from "Liberty Leading the People" by Eugène Delacroix, 1830, symbolizing liberty during the first French Revolution of 1789–94.
5 is "Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854.
6 is "Suzanne at the Bath", by Théodore Chassériau, 1839.
7 is "Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806. Catherine, 13-15 years old at the time of the portrait, died less than a year later.
8 is "The Painter with Her Daughter" by Élisabeth Louise Vigée LeBrun, 1789.
9 is "Phaedra and Hippolytus" by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1802.
10 is the "Madame de Pierre Sériziat and Her Daughter Emily" by Louis David, 1793.
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