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"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

Works by artist Sara Shakeel.

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“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety."

-Enobarbus, 2.2

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Psyché Revived by Cupid's Kiss,

1787 - 1793.

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Antinous

"Turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image.

His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun."

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Athena & Hercules

By Daniel Arsham, from the artist's exhibition 'Moonraker'.

Galerie Perrotin & Musée Guimet.

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Antinous as Vertumnus

Found in Ostia in the late 1700s. Now in the Vatican Museums, Rome.

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Cupid & Psyche

"Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori."

"Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to love."

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Venus de Milo

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

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Head of Antinous

Discovered in 1878 in Cairo. Date: AD 130-138.

Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

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The Three Graces

"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world."

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Antinous

Roman marble. Early 2nd century CE.

Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

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Athena

Roman copy of the 1st century AD.

Museum of Antiquities, Munich.

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Polyhymnia

Muse of sacred poetry, dance, and eloquence. 2nd century AD.

Pius-Clementine Museum, Vatican.

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Aphrodite of Syracuse

Roman copy of the 2nd century CE. Found in South Italian Baiae.

- Athens, Archaeological Museum.

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Colossal Bust of Antinous

Marble, 130s CE. From Hadrian's Villa.

Pius-Clementine Museum, Vatican.

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Mercury & Psyche

Marble sculpture by Reinhold Begas, 1878. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

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Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss

"Kisses that brushed the surface, And feelings that shook the soul."