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Figure 1: Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus (1486; Uffizi, Florence, Italy)


Figure 2: Giorgione (finished by Titian), Sleeping Venus (1510; Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden)


Figure 3: Titian, Venus of Urbino (1538; Uffizi, Florence, Italy)


Figure 4: Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors (1533; National Gallery of Art, London)


Figure 5: Edouard Manet, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le dejeuner sur l'herbe) (1863; Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden; first exhibited in the Salon des Refuses in Paris, 1863)

"Bow Wow Wow" was a New Wave band of the early 1980s put together by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westood to promote a clothing line)
Here is a controversial album cover image of their EP "The Last of the Mohicans"
and here is the music video for their cover of "I Want Candy" (1982)


Figure 6: Edouard Manet, Olympia (1863; Musee d'Orsay, Paris. France)


Figure 7: Cecilia Beaux, Sita and Sarita (Jeune Fille au Chat) (1893-94; Musee d'Orsay, Paris. France)


Figure 8: René Magritte, Ceci n'est pas une pipe (1928-29; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA)


Figure 9: Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917; submitted and refused by the exhibit managed by the Societ of Independent Artists, 1917)