Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas kiss in the set of Medea, 1969.

Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969)

This painting is an unfinished work — the hands are only sketched. The gentleman has been tentatively identified as Juan Mateos († 1643), the Royal Chief Master of the Hunt, author of a renowded treatise “on the origins and dignity of the hunt” (Origen y Dignidad de la Caza, Madrid, 1634).

Botticelli c. 1483-1485, Birth of Venus

Ascesa all'empireo (Ascent of the Blessed) - Hieronymus Bosch 1490 c. Olio su tavola 87 cm × 40 cm Palazzo Grimani, Venezia

Antonio Canova, The Three Graces, 1815-1817

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes El entierro de la sardina (detail) 1812-1819

Pablo Picasso, Massacre in Korea (detail, 1951)

Caravaggio (1986) vs. the original paintings