Depictions of gods and goddesses, fantastic beasts and the heroes of Ancient Greece and Rome.
The dangers of envy: Rubens’s jealous furies to Veronese’s depictions of jealousy provoked by deceit.
Flora and fauna; whether symbolic or documenting one-time curiosities from foreign lands.
Self-indulgence and miserly greed, from Bacchanalian feasts to the miser’s gold coins.
Compare the precision of the Dutch flower painters with the energy of van Gogh’s sunflowers.
The motherly love of the Madonna to the passion of Titian’s Bacchus, love in its many forms.