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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. xi: The Nine Greek Muses</image:title>
      <image:caption>There are nine Muses in Greek mythology. Each was a goddess who inspires different forms of the arts and sciences. They are Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpmene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania. Photo: greekmythology.com</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 15: Saint Hildegard of Bingen</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hildegard of Bingen. Image, public domain</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 22: Poet Sappho</image:title>
      <image:caption>Woman with wax tablet and stylus (Sappho) Fresco, Pompeii. 55-70 AD. Naples National Archeological Museum</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 23: Sappho Poem Fragment</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sappho’s poem “An Old Age” lines 9-20. Papyrus 3 century B.C. Photo: Masur</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 28: Isis/Aphrodite</image:title>
      <image:caption>Greco Roman period 642 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art. NY</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 34: Venus in the shell</image:title>
      <image:caption>Fresco of Venus in shell from The House of Venus, Pompeii.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 34: Venus on Paphos</image:title>
      <image:caption>Venus by Henri-Pierre Picou (19th century). Public domain, Wiki commons</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 36: Aphrodite Riding Swan</image:title>
      <image:caption>Aphrodite on a swan. Tondo from Attic white ground red figured kylix. Tomb in Kameiros Rhodes. WickiCommons, Pistoxenos Painter</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 37: Ares and Aphrodite</image:title>
      <image:caption>ArchaiOptix. Pompeii, Naples. Archeological Museum</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 38: Anchises and Aphrodite</image:title>
      <image:caption>Aphrodite and Anchises. High relief from the Sebasteion. Turkey. Unesco World Heritage Centre.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 39: Adonis and Aphrodite</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Awakening of Adonis. Detail. John William Waterhouse. 1899</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 45:  Aphrodite of Knidos</image:title>
      <image:caption>Aphrodite of Knidos statue (4th century BC) by Praxiteles. Museo nazionale roman di palazzo Altemps. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 46: Temple of Aphrodite</image:title>
      <image:caption>Aphrodite’s temple in Aphrodisia, Turkey. Photo courtesy of HolyLandsPhotos.org</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 49: Temple of Aphrodite</image:title>
      <image:caption>Temple of Aphrodite in Acrocorinth (ancient Corinth).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 55: Psyche and Amor (Eros)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Psyche and Amor by Francois Gerard.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 59: Femmes Fatales</image:title>
      <image:caption>An array of Film Noir Femme Fatale</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 79: Aphrodite and Eros</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Victory of Eros. Angelica Kauffmann. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 80: Eros</image:title>
      <image:caption>Etruscan or Greek mirror with image of Eros and lyre</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 80: Cupid</image:title>
      <image:caption>Victorian Valentine’s card.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 81: The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. Rome.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 89: Sappho</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sappho Amanda Brewster Sewell. 1891</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 94: Dionysus</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bacchus. Simeon Solomon. 1867 Sothebys, Wiki commons public domain.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 98: Cleopatra</image:title>
      <image:caption>Statue of Cleopatra VII. First century BC. Black basalt. Hermitage museum, Saint Petersburg</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 99: Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra. 1885. Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Private collection. Public Domain</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 111: Judgement of Paris</image:title>
      <image:caption>Judgement of Paris fresco from Pompeii.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 113: Birth of Venus</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. Uffizi gallery, Florence.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 112: Golden Ratio</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Golden Ratio with Fibonacci sequence.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 116: Wabi-Sabi</image:title>
      <image:caption>Zen garden of Ryoan-ji. The clay wall has been stained brown and orange by age reflecting sabi principles, with the rock garden reflecting wabi principles.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - P. 117: Return of Spring</image:title>
      <image:caption>Return of Spring. William-Adolphe Bouguereau. 1886. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 119: Bob Ross</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bob Ross was a painter and art instructor who hosted the public television series The Joy of Painting which aired from 1983 to 1994.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 124: Ugly Architecture</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ugly Modernist apartment building. Photo: Etienne Giradet, Unsplash.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 128: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon</image:title>
      <image:caption>Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Pablo Picasso. Museum of Modern Art, New York.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - P. 146: Rose Trellis</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rose trellis in Butchart Gardens. Brentwood Bay, British Columbia</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 164: A Space for Shinrin-Yoku</image:title>
      <image:caption>Shinrin-yoku or “forest bathing” is the Japanese practice of spending time in a forest or natural environment to enliven one’s senses and experience the healing power of nature.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - P. 172: Quinces</image:title>
      <image:caption>Aphrodite’s sacred fruit.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Photo Gallery - Pg. 189: Botticelli's Primavera</image:title>
      <image:caption>Primavera. Sandro Botticelli. 1447-1842 Uffizi Gallery, Florence</image:caption>
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