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. 2015 Apr 13;107(1):154–178. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12132

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Examples of works of art in which curvature appears to play an important role. From top left: Venus of Willendorf (approximately 26,000 B.C.E.); horses in the Lascaux cave (approximately 17,000 B.C.E.); Nike Statue of Samothrace (190 B.C.); Birth of Venus by Botticelli (1486); the French Rococo Louis XV style armchairs; Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh (1889); and Dominant Curve by Wassily Kandinsky (1936).