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"The Dragon", a copper engraving, 1792.

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Neptune embraces Amphitrite, in a mosaic found at Sidi Ghrib, Tunesia, now in the Carthage Museum.

Photo: akg-images / Gilles Mermet

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Hercules fighting with Hippolyta, in a watercolour by Peter Connolly.

Photo: akg-images / Peter Connolly

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Alexandre Cabanel's "Birth of Venus", 1863, in Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

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Edward Burne-Jones's "Orpheus", 1880, the book cover of an edition of Ludwig van Beethoven's songs, sold by Sotheby's, London, on 7 June 1995.

Photo: Sotheby's / akg-images