Take off your shoes but keep your socks on before stepping onto the carpet and moving towards the coffins. You are about to enter a simulated sacred space.
The 18th-century British painter William Hogarth created an insightful series of paintings about the arranged marriages of his times, entitled Marriage A-la-Mode.
Diana and Actaeon by Jean-François de Troy is a French masterpiece blending the exuberance of Rococo sensuality with the intellectualism of classical mythology.
François Boucher (1703–1770) was the most celebrated French painter of the 18th century. His painting Madame de Pompadour captures the beautiful mistress of King Louis XV.