Comparative Study: Examples of bodily beauty around the world and through time.
China: Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court ladies, Gu Kaizhi (344-406)
Cancuen, Panel 3, 8th Century, Mayan
Cupid Complaining to Venus, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1525), Germany
Greek Goddess
Mohini, Hoysala Karnataka by Hock Khoe (12th Century) India
Bust of Nefertiti: Egyptian
Princess Tarakanova, Konstantin Flavitsky, 1864, Russia
Venus of Urbino, Titian, 1538, Italy
Two Lovers, Riza Abbasi, 1630, Iran
The Hireling Sheperd, William Holman Hunt, 1851, England
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