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The Birth of Venus by Botticelli 

The Nightmare by Fuseli

Suzanna and the Elders by Gentileschi

Jupiter and Io by Coreggio

The Pretty Horsebreaker by Landseer

Girl in a white kimono by Breitner

Lady Godiva by Collier

The Roses of Heliogabalus by Alma-Tadema

Saint George and the Dragon by Uccello

Proserpine by Rosetti 

The Lady of Shalott by Waterhouse

Judith and Holofernes by Klimt

Nana by Manet

Symphony in White, No. 2, by Whistler

Venus with a Mirror by Titian 
 
Portrait of Madame X by Sargent
 
The Procuress by Gerard van Honthorst 
 
Woman Combing Her Hair by Goyo 
 
The Appearance of an Upper Class Wife of the Meiji Era: Out for a Walk, by Yoshitoshi
 
 
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