“Eve”, 1885

Northern Lights by Anna Boberg (Swedish, 1864–1935)

Monreale, Jakub Schikaneder

La Belle Liseuse by Léon Comerre, c. 1916 (details)

Bob Ross

Mädchen mit Rosen by T. Mazzoni, 1877 (detail)

Paris | France

Diadumenè (1885, revised 1893). Sir Edward John Poynter (British, 1836-1919). Oil on canvas.

Diadumenè, derived from the Esquiline Venus and named after the Diadumenos of Polyclitus, originally exhibited at the RA in 1885 as a nude, inspired a debate regarding the nude in art. Poynter, despite his strong stance against his critics, was compelled to add drapery. The small bronze statue in the background echoes Diadumenè’s pose, but its still undraped state is a reminder of Poynter’s original intentions for the work.

Detail of Hymn to the Rose, 1907, by John Duncan (1866-1945)

The Witches Sabbath (detail) by Frans Francken II, 1607.

Roberto Ferri, The Ritual, 2016.