Images

Madonna di Piazza, tempera on panel by Andrea del Verrocchio, 1474-1483. Cattedrale di San Zen, Pistoia

Hera, watercolor, gouache, and possibly waterglass (sodium silicate) on paper stretched on wood panel by Marie Spartali Stillman, c. 1889. Historic New England, Boston.

Flora, oil on canvas by Evelyn De Morgan, 1894 Trustees of the De Morgan Foundation.

Roman Widow, oil on canvas by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874. Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc

Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles by the Sea, oil on canvas by Frederic Leighton, 1871. Collection Pérez Simón, Mexico

Holy Grail tapestries: The Arming of the Knights, tapestry in wool and silk designed by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and John Henry Dearle, 1890. Private Collection.

Pallas and the Centaur, oil on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482-1483. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence.

A photograph showing Canadian infantry troops landing under fire at Juno Beach, Normandy on D-Day 6 June 1944. Taken near St Aubin-sur-Mer, at about 8.05 am. (Imperial War Museums)

An aerial view showing the Allied landing craft and assault troops at Juno Beach, Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

An abandoned Centaur Mk IV belonging to the Royal Marines Armoured Support Group, on Juno Beach on D-Day. St Aubin-sur-Mer, 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)