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List of illustrations

  • The Original Sin, detail
  • Venus of Urbino
  • Pelagia and Philammon
  • Portrait of Nell Gwynne [1650–87] as Venus, with her son, Charles Beauclark [1670–1726] as Cupid
  • Church at Auvers-sur-Oise
  • Therese Dreaming
  • Toilet Brush
  • Rwandan refuge camp of Benako, Tanzania, 1994
  • Elliot and Dominick, 1979
  • Nymphaeum
  • Transfiguration
  • Black Square
  • Blue Nude
  • Seated Bather
  • Seated Nude
  • Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe)
  • No. 12 (Red and Yellow) {Yellow, Orange, Red on Orange}
  • Three Musicians
  • St. Nicholas of Myra Saves Three Innocents from Death
  • New Yorker
  • Olympia
  • La Queue du chat, ou la charbonnière des Batignolles
  • Fountain
  • Brillo Box (Soap Pads)
  • Spin Suspension
  • Feeding funnel (koropata)
  • Self-hybridations precolombiennes no. 1
  • Birth of Venus
  • Vénus Anadyomene
  • Zygotic acceleration, Biogenetic de-sublimated libidinal model (enlarged × 1000)
  • Untitled (Ring with Light)
  • Portrait of Man (Emile Lejeune)
  • Annunciation
  • Primavera, detail of Venus
  • The Execution of Emperor Maximilian
  • Execution of Maximilian
  • Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, detail
  • Schematic Drawing for Incomplete Open Cubes
  • Saint Francis and the Poor Knight, and Francis's Vision
  • Vénus bleue (Blue Venus), S 41
  • Alantolactone
  • John Merrick
  • Faces
  • Holy Family with St. Elizabeth (Madonna of the Basket)
  • Man with Bulging Eyes
  • Madonna and Child
  • Virgin Hodegetria
  • Madonna and Child
  • The Cateress (La Pourvoyeuse)
  • Portrait of Marguerite de Sève
  • View of Delft, detail
  • Baptism of Christ
  • After the Prom
  • Death of Marat
  • Old Man with a Child
  • Heartless
  • Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110
  • Apollo and Diana in Wooded Landscape
  • Olympia
  • Venus of Urbino
  • Birth of Venus
  • Portrait of Laure (La négresse)
  • Snake Charmer
  • The Old Musician
  • A Lady on Her Day Bed
  • La Toilette
  • A Moorish Woman with her Maid
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Olympia, detail
  • Edouard Manet
  • Untitled [nude photograph]
  • Olympia, detail
  • Christ Pantocrator
  • Christ Pantocrator, detail
  • Virgin Hodegetria
  • Music in the Tuileries
  • The Little Cavaliers
  • The Little Cavaliers
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Description: Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
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Description: Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
For the third time in my life, an invitation to the University of California at Berkeley has resulted in a book. This one began as the Townsend Lectures in 2000, when I had the immense benefit of several discussions with Donald Davidson. Considerably expanded, the text served as the core of the Tanner Lectures I delivered at Yale University in 2001 at the invitation of Peter Brooks, then director...
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Description: Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
All beautiful things, the Greek philosopher Plotinus wrote in the third century A.D., produce “awe and a shock of delight, passionate longing, love and a shudder of rapture...
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Description: Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
One of the most famous scandals in the history of art broke out when Edouard Manet’s Olympia (​Plate 5​) was first exhibited in the Salon of 1865...
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Description: Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
More than just windows to the soul, the eyes are part of it. What we know—or think we know or want to think—about them affects how people look to us...
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Description: Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
What separates the woman with whom I have spent most of my life or my closest friend from others whose paths have crossed mine for shorter or more scattered times...
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